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MI SB0300

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/24/2021

Primary Sponsor

Wayne Schmidt

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Origin

Senate

101st Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes early voting on the second Saturday before election day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at designated polling places in each city or township.

  • Changes polling hour language from "shall" to "must" and modifies times from traditional language (e.g., "7 o'clock in the forenoon") to standard time notation (7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day).

  • Requires city and township clerks to post notices at their offices indicating early voting dates, times, and polling place locations.

  • Applies existing election procedures to early voting, including election inspectors, ballot security, voter challenges, poll books, and ballot counting methods.

  • Creates felony offenses for tampering with early voting ballot containers and for disclosing or characterizing how ballots were voted during the early voting period.

Legislative Description

Elections: voting procedures; early voting; provide for. Amends secs. 720 & 735 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.720 & 116.735) & adds sec. 720a.

State agencies (existing): state

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Elections

3/24/2021

Committee Referrals

Elections3/24/2021

Full Bill Text

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