September 21, 2004, Introduced by Senators BERNERO, CHERRY, SCHAUER, SCOTT, THOMAS, BASHAM, JACOBS, PRUSI, SWITALSKI, CLARK-COLEMAN, CLARKE, OLSHOVE, EMERSON, LELAND, BARCIA and BRATER and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 509o (MCL 168.509o), as added by 1994 PA
441.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 509o. (1) The secretary of state shall direct and
2 supervise the establishment and maintenance of a statewide
3 qualified voter file. The secretary of state shall establish the
4 technology to implement the qualified voter file on or before
5 January 1, 1997. The qualified voter file shall be is
the
6 official file for the conduct of all elections held in this state
7 on or after January 1, 1998. The secretary of state may direct
8 that all or any part of the city, township, or village
9 registration files shall be used in conjunction with the
10 qualified voter file at the first state primary and election held
1 after the creation of the qualified voter file.
2 (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
3 contrary, beginning January 1, 1998, a person who appears to vote
4 in an election and whose name appears in the qualified voter file
5 for that city, township, village, or school district is
6 considered a registered voter of that city, township, village, or
7 school district under this act.
8 (3) The secretary of state, a designated voter registration
9 agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not
10 place a name of an individual into the qualified voter file
11 unless that person signs an application as prescribed in section
12 509r(3). The Except
as provided in subsection (4), the
13 secretary of state or a designated voter registration agency
14 shall not allow a person to indicate a different address than the
15 address in either the secretary of state's or designated voter
16 registration agency's files to be placed in the qualified voter
17 file.
18 (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
19 contrary, an individual may change the residence address on his
20 or her operator's or chauffeur's license without changing his or
21 her address for purposes of the qualified voter file or may
22 change his or her address on the qualified voter file without
23 changing the residence address on his or her operator's or
24 chauffeur's license.