HOUSE BILL No. 5426

November 10, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Elsenheimer, Jones, Gillard, Booher, Sheltrown, Hildenbrand, Pavlov, Green, Hansen and Marleau and referred to the Committee on House Oversight, Elections, and Ethics.

 

     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:

 

     Sec. 683. (1)  Each county clerk prior to  Before each primary

 

and election, each county clerk shall, by some reliable means,

 

notify the clerk of each township and city in the county of a

 

training school for election inspectors to be held at a place

 

designated by the county clerk within 20 days  prior to  before

 

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

 

clerks shall notify each election inspector appointed to serve at

 

that election of the time and place of  such  the training school.

 

At  such meeting  a training school, the county clerk shall


 

instruct and demonstrate the manner in which the duties of election

 

inspectors are required by law to be performed.  It shall be the

 

duty of the inspectors, so notified, to attend such meeting

 

     (2) Except as provided in subsection (5), an election

 

inspector notified under subsection (1) shall attend the training

 

school unless excused by the county clerk for good cause.  

 

Compensation may be paid them therefor by their respective

 

municipalities at such rate as may be determined by the governing

 

bodies. No inspector of election shall serve in any election unless

 

he shall have  The municipality in which an election inspector is

 

appointed may compensate the election inspector for attending a

 

training school at the rate determined by the municipality's

 

governing body.

 

     (3) An election inspector shall not serve in an election

 

unless the election inspector has, within the last preceding 2

 

years, either attended an election inspector training school or  

 

shall have  passed satisfactorily an examination given by the

 

election commission of the city, township, or village in which

 

appointed. The examination  shall be  is subject to the approval of

 

the secretary of state.

 

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

 

an election inspector  of election  to fill a vacancy.

 

     (5) This section  shall  does not prohibit  any city or any

 

township having a population of 10,000 or more  a city or township

 

from conducting its own training school for election inspectors of

 

that city or township.  in which case election inspectors who have

 

attended such school shall not be  An election inspector who


 

attends a city or township training school is not required to

 

attend the county training school.