HOUSE BILL No. 5456

 

September 23, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Miller and referred to the Committee on Ethics and Elections.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 759e.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 759e. Each county, city, township, and village clerk

 

shall maintain a permanent absent voter list. A qualified and

 

registered elector may request to be placed on the permanent absent

 

voter list of the county, city, township, or village in which the

 

elector is registered to vote. A request by an elector under this

 

section shall be made to the county, city, township, or village

 

clerk in person or by telephone, facsimile communication, or first-

 

class mail. The clerk shall send to each elector on the permanent

 

absent voter list an application for an absent voter ballot for


 

each election.