HOUSE BILL No. 6181


     June 13, 2002, Introduced by Rep. Jacobs and referred to the Committee on Redistricting and Elections.


        A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

   "Michigan election law,"

   by amending section 683 (MCL 168.683).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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             Sec. 683.  (1)  Each county clerk prior to  BEFORE each pri-

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        mary and election, EACH COUNTY CLERK shall, by some reliable

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        means, notify the clerk of each township and city in the county

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        of a training school for election inspectors to be held at a

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        place designated by the county clerk within 20 days  prior to

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        BEFORE each primary, general, and special election.  The township

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        and city clerks shall notify each election inspector appointed to

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        serve at that election of the time and place of  such  THE train-

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        ing school.  At  such meeting  A TRAINING SCHOOL, the county

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        clerk shall instruct and demonstrate the manner in which the

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        duties of election inspectors are required by law to be


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        performed.   It shall be the duty of the inspectors, so notified,

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        to attend such meeting

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             (2) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (4), AN ELECTION

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        INSPECTOR NOTIFIED UNDER SUBSECTION (1) SHALL ATTEND THE TRAINING

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        SCHOOL, unless excused by the county clerk for good cause.

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         Compensation may be paid them therefor by their respective

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        municipalities at such rate as may be determined by the governing

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        bodies.  No inspector of election shall serve in any election

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        unless he shall have  THE MUNICIPALITY THAT APPOINTED AN ELECTION

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        INSPECTOR MAY COMPENSATE THE ELECTION INSPECTOR FOR ATTENDING A

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        TRAINING SCHOOL AT THE RATE DETERMINED BY THE MUNICIPALITY'S GOV-

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        ERNING BODY.

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             (3) AN ELECTION INSPECTOR SHALL NOT SERVE IN AN ELECTION

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        UNLESS THE ELECTION INSPECTOR HAS, within the last preceding 2

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        years, either attended an election school or  shall have  passed

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        satisfactorily an examination given by the election commission of

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        the city, township, or village in which appointed.  The examina-

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        tion  shall be  IS subject to the approval of the secretary of

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        state.

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             (4) This section  shall  DOES not prevent the appointment of

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        an inspector of election to fill a vacancy.  This section  shall

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        DOES not prohibit  any city or any township having a population

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        of 10,000 or more  A CITY OR TOWNSHIP from conducting its own

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        training school for election inspectors of that city or township.

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         in which case election inspectors who have attended such school

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        shall not be  AN ELECTION INSPECTOR WHO ATTENDS A CITY OR





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        TOWNSHIP TRAINING SCHOOL IS NOT required to attend the county

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        training school.




















































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