Section 168.679 - Counting board; membership; appointment; duties; applicability of MCL 168.662 to place of performance.
MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954
168.679 Counting board; membership; appointment; duties; applicability of MCL 168.662 to place of performance.
Sec. 679.
(1) The legislative body of a city, township, or village, by resolution, may provide that for an election in a precinct of the city, township, or village, there shall be an additional board of election inspectors, known as the counting board. The counting board shall consist of 3 or more election inspectors. Sections 673a and 674 apply to the appointment of election inspectors to counting boards under this section. The counting board shall count the ballots cast in the precinct at an election and make a statement of returns of that count. The provisions of this chapter relative to the appointment, qualifications, privileges, powers, duties, and oaths of office of election inspectors shall apply to the members of a counting board, to the extent that they apply to the counting of the votes cast at and the making of the statement of returns of an election.
(2) In a precinct for which a counting board has been provided, the duties of the election inspectors who have conducted the election during the day shall cease on the closing of the polls and, upon the closing of the polls, the counting board shall assume charge and control of the place of voting, the ballot boxes, the ballots, and all other equipment of the polling place and shall proceed with the counting of votes. The counting board shall perform all duties required by this act to be performed after the closing of the polls at an election by the board of election inspectors in a precinct that does not have a counting board, as provided in this section.
(3) Section 662 applies to the designation and prescribing of the place or places in which the counting board performs its duties under this section.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 261, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 583, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997
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