HOUSE BILL No. 4381


     February 28, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Cameron Brown, Bradstreet, Julian, Ehardt, LaSata and Meyer and referred to the Committee on
Redistricting and Elections.


        A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

   "Michigan election law,"

   by amending section 42 (MCL 168.42), as amended by 1999 PA 216.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 42.  (1) In the year in which presidential electors are

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      to be elected under section 43, each political party in this

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      state shall choose at its fall state convention a number of can-

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      didates for electors of president and vice-president of the

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      United States equal to the number of senators and representatives

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      in congress that this state is entitled to elect.  ONE PRESIDEN-

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      TIAL ELECTOR SHALL BE CHOSEN FROM EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,

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      AND 2 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS SHALL BE CHOSEN AT LARGE. The chair-

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      person and the secretary of the state central committee of each

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      political party shall, within 1 business day after the conclusion

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      of the state convention, forward by registered or certified mail


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      a certificate containing the names of the candidates for

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      PRESIDENTIAL electors to the secretary of state.   The candidates

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      for electors of president and vice-president who shall be consid-

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      ered elected are those whose names have been certified to the

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      secretary of state by that political party receiving the greatest

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      number of votes for those offices at the next November election.

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           (2) A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR SHALL BE CONSIDERED

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      ELECTED FROM A CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IF HIS OR HER NAME WAS CER-

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      TIFIED TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE BY A POLITICAL PARTY AS PROVIDED

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      IN SUBSECTION (1) AND THAT POLITICAL PARTY RECEIVES THE GREATEST

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      NUMBER OF VOTES FOR PRESIDENT IN THAT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN

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      THE GENERAL NOVEMBER ELECTION.

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           (3) A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR SHALL BE CONSIDERED

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      ELECTED AT LARGE IF HIS OR HER NAME WAS CERTIFIED TO THE SECRE-

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      TARY OF STATE BY A POLITICAL PARTY AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (1)

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      AND THAT POLITICAL PARTY RECEIVES THE GREATEST NUMBER OF VOTES

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      FOR PRESIDENT IN THIS STATE IN THE GENERAL NOVEMBER ELECTION.























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