Michigan Laws 168.768a – Absent voter ballot drop off; instructions
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 168.768a
- Absent voter: is a voter who utilizes the process described in section 759. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Absent voter ballot: means a ballot that is issued to a voter through the absent voter process. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Election: means an election or primary election at which the electors of this state or of a subdivision of this state choose or nominate by ballot an individual for public office or decide a ballot question lawfully submitted to them. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (4), an absent voter may take the absent voter’s marked absent voter ballot to the absent voter’s election day polling place or to an appropriate early voting site during the early voting period as provided under section 4(1)(m) of article II of the state constitution of 1963 to personally put the absent voter’s marked absent voter ballot into a tabulator to be tabulated. An absent voter described under this subsection shall do all of the following:
(a) Place the marked absent voter ballot in the secrecy sleeve that was provided to the absent voter.
(b) Bring the marked absent voter ballot in the secrecy sleeve to the absent voter’s election day polling place or early voting site.
(c) Comply with the same identification requirements as an elector voting in person under section 523.
(2) If an elector brings an absent voter ballot to an election day polling place or to an early voting site without a secrecy sleeve, an election inspector shall provide a secrecy sleeve to that elector and instruct the elector to place the absent voter ballot in the secrecy sleeve.
(3) The election inspectors processing an absent voter under this section must note in the poll book that the absent voter returned the absent voter’s absent voter ballot to the election day polling place or early voting site and that the absent voter’s absent voter ballot was tabulated.
(4) If the tabulators in an election day polling place cannot be programmed to accept and tabulate absent voter ballots as provided under section 764a(3), an absent voter is not authorized to return the absent voter’s absent voter ballot to an election day polling place to be tabulated as provided under section 764a(3). An absent voter may still return the absent voter’s absent voter ballot to an election day polling place, surrender the absent voter ballot to an election inspector, be issued another ballot, and vote that ballot in the polling place.