Section 168.776 - Voting machines; supplies and equipment; keys, delivery and return.
MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954
168.776 Voting machines; supplies and equipment; keys, delivery and return.
Sec. 776.
Not to exceed 3 additional sets of ballot labels shall be provided for each polling place for each election for use on the voting machine, and the same shall be delivered by the board of election commissioners to the election board of each voting precinct. Envelopes for the delivery and return of the keys of the voting machine shall be furnished by the county or city clerk, upon which shall be printed or written the number of the machine, the ward or precinct and the record of the protective counter, if any, and the numbers of the seals before and after the election, each of which shall be correctly filled out and be delivered to the proper board or official: Provided, however, That in communities where the registration books and supplies are delivered to their respective boards by the local law enforcement agency, a key ring to which is attached the keys to the voting machine and tags bearing the number of the machine and the ward and/or precinct, may be delivered by said agency to the proper board or official. The number registered on the protective counter, if any, and the numbers of the seals before the election, and after, if used, shall be recorded in the “statement of returns”. At the close of the polls, the key ring containing the keys to the voting machine and the tags bearing the number of the machine and of the ward and/or precinct shall be returned to the city, village or township clerk. In all general or city elections where voting machines are used, there shall be furnished by the board of election commissioners, to the election board in each such precinct, a sufficient number of instruction ballots or wall diagrams showing the keyboard of the voting machine with the titles of offices, names of candidates, with designating numbers and letters, if any, and questions, and with illustrations and brief instructions on how to vote.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Popular Name: Election Code