168.720e Single municipality; administration of early voting without agreement; designation at polling place; appointment of election inspectors; additional voting days;
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168.720e Single municipality; administration of early voting without agreement; designation at polling place; appointment of election inspectors; additional voting days; local elections; resolution.
Sec. 720e.
(1)The clerk of a municipality that does not enter into a municipal agreement or county agreement for conducting early voting is responsible for administering early voting in that municipality.
(2)Each early voting site for a municipality described in subsection
(1)must be designated in the same manner as polling places are designated in section 662. Each elector registered in the municipality may engage in early voting at any early voting site in that municipality.
(3)The board of election commissioners of a municipality described in subsection
(1)shall, in accordance with section 674, appoint election inspectors for each early voting site in that municipality.
(4)For each federal and statewide election, each municipality described in subsection
(1)must have 1 or more early voting sites. In addition, the clerk of the municipality described in subsection
(1)may set additional hours for early voting on any of the required 9 consecutive days of early voting as described in section 720b.
(5)The clerk of a municipality described in subsection
(1)may also offer early voting on additional days beyond the required 9 consecutive days as described in section 720b. The clerk of the municipality may set the hours for those additional days of early voting without regard to the hours on the required 9 consecutive days of early voting described in section 720b. Additional days of early voting as described in this subsection must take place on or after the twenty-ninth day before an election.
(6)The legislative body of a municipality described in subsection
(1)may adopt a resolution to conduct early voting in an election held in that municipality that is not a statewide or federal election, and early voting for that election must be conducted under the requirements of this section, except that the required 9 consecutive days of early voting beginning on the second Saturday before the election and ending on the Sunday before the election, and the required minimum of 8 hours of early voting each day, do not apply.
(7)If a municipality has 250 or more precincts, each ballot form that contains identical offices and names may be considered a separate precinct for purposes of early voting.
History: Add. 2023, Act 81 , Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Popular Name: Election Code