September 10, 2015, Introduced by Senator GREEN and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending sections 42 and 45 (MCL 168.42 and 168.45), section 42
as amended by 1999 PA 216 and section 45 as amended by 1985 PA 160.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 42. (1) In the year in which presidential electors are to
be elected under section 43, each political party in this state
shall choose at its fall state convention a number of candidates
for electors of president and vice-president of the United States
equal to the number of senators and representatives in congress
that this state is entitled to elect. One presidential elector
shall be chosen from each congressional district, and 2
presidential electors shall be chosen at large and allocated as
provided in subsection (3) or (4). The chairperson and the
secretary of the state central committee of each political party
shall, within 1 business day after the conclusion of the state
convention, forward by registered or certified mail a certificate
containing the names of the candidates for presidential electors to
the
secretary of state. The candidates for electors of president
and
vice-president who shall be considered elected are those whose
names
have been certified to the secretary of state by that
political
party receiving the greatest number of votes for those
offices
at the next November election.
(2) A candidate for presidential elector is considered elected
from a congressional district if his or her name was certified to
the secretary of state by a political party as provided in
subsection (1) and that political party receives the greatest
number of votes for president in that congressional district in the
general November election.
(3) A candidate for presidential elector is considered elected
at large if his or her name was certified to the secretary of state
by a political party as provided in subsection (1) and, except as
otherwise provided in subsection (4), that political party is
allocated a majority of the presidential electors from
congressional districts as provided in subsection (2).
(4) If no political party is allocated a majority of the
presidential electors from congressional districts as provided in
subsection (2), the 2 political parties allocated the most
presidential electors under subsection (2) shall each be allocated
1 of the at-large presidential electors.
Sec. 45. Marking a cross (X) or a check mark (ü) in the circle
under
the party name of a political party
, at the general November
election
in a presidential year , shall
not be considered and taken
as a direct vote for the candidates of that political party for
president and vice-president or either of them, but, as to the
presidential
vote, as a vote for the entire list or set of
presidential
electors chosen by that political party and certified
to
the secretary of state pursuant to this chapter.for that
congressional district and for the state at large.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.