HB-5199, As Passed Senate, December 11, 2018
October 31, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Lilly and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 842 (MCL 168.842), as amended by 2004 PA 92.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 842. (1) The board of state canvassers, for the purpose
of canvassing the returns and ascertaining and determining the
result of an election, shall meet at the office of the secretary of
state on or before the twentieth day after the election. The
secretary of state shall appoint the day of the meeting and shall
notify the other members of the board. The board has power to
adjourn from time to time to await the receipt or correction of
returns, or for other necessary purposes, but shall complete the
canvass and announce their determination not later than the
fortieth day after the election. The board may at the time of its
meeting, or an adjournment of its meeting, canvass the returns for
any office for which the complete returns have been received.
(2) If the unofficial election returns show that the election
of
electors of president President
and vice president Vice
President of the United States is determined by a vote differential
between
the first place and second place candidates for president
President
and vice president Vice President of the United States of
less
than 25,000 votes, the secretary of state may shall direct
the
boards of county canvassers to canvass returns for electors of
president
President and vice president Vice President of the United
States on an expedited schedule. The secretary of state may direct
the boards of county canvassers to complete the statements for
electors
of president President and vice president Vice President
of the United States required by section 824 and certify the
statements as required by section 828 to the secretary of state by
the seventh day after the election or by a date before the
fourteenth day after the election.
(3) The secretary of state may appoint the day for the board
of state canvassers to conduct the expedited canvass of the returns
for
electors of president President
and vice president Vice
President of the United States and determine the results of that
election.
The day appointed for the expedited canvass shall must be
as soon as practicable after receipt of the returns from the boards
of county canvassers, but no later than the twentieth day after the
election.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.