LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Bipartisan legislation that ensures absentee voter ballots from military and overseas voters are counted if received up to six days after an election has been signed into law.
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Last year, Michigan voters approved Proposal 2 which, among other things, expanded absentee voting for military and overseas voters.
The new law provides that if an absentee voter ballot return envelope containing a ballot cast by a military or overseas voter was postmarked on or before election day and was received by the voter’s city or township clerk within six days after the election, the ballot must be counted.
City or township clerks forward all received absentee voter ballots from military or overseas voters to county clerks for tabulation at a county canvass board meeting. In addition, the law provides procedures if the postmark on the envelope is missing or unclear.
