Introduced
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To prohibit an authorized assistant of a city, township, or village clerk from soliciting a registered voter for permission to return an absentee ballot application from the person to the clerk. Note: There was a scandal during a recent election in Detroit in which "assistants" engaged by the city clerk allegedly solicited absentee ballots from mentally incapacitated individuals in nursing homes.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight, Elections, and Ethics
