§ 168.720gCounty agreement requirements; appointment of coordinator and election

inspectors; days and hours of early voting; withdrawal from agreement.
 Sec. 720g.
    (1) The secretary of state shall prescribe the provisions that must be included in a county
 agreement between 1 or more municipalities located in the same county and the county clerk
 of that county authorizing the county clerk to conduct early voting for each municipality that
 is a party to the agreement, with assistance from, and in consultation with, the clerk of each
 municipality that is a party to the agreement. The provisions must include, but not be limited
 to, all of the following:
    (a) The name of the county and the name of each municipality involved in the agreement.
    (b) The number of precincts in each participating municipality.
    (c) The name of the coordinator who will organize and monitor the administrative
 requirements of early voting.
    (d) The process for determining the number of early voting sites needed, and the process for
 determining the location of each early voting site.
    (e) The process for approving the early voting hours for the required 9 consecutive days of
 early voting, and the process for approving any additional days and hours of early voting.
    (f) The communication strategy for informing electors of the opportunity for early voting,
 and for publicizing each early voting site, along with the dates and hours of operation of each
 early voting site, and which city or township is served by each early voting site.
    (g) The process to ensure that the secretary of state has the information necessary to include
 the location, along with the dates and hours of operation, of each early voting site on the
 department of state's website.


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    (h) The process for developing the early voting budget and cost sharing and chargeback
 procedures.
    (i) The process for determining the number of tabulators and early voting poll books that are
 necessary in each early voting site and the name of the county or municipality that will
 provide those tabulators and early voting poll books.
    (j) The name of the board of election commissioners that will conduct testing of the
 electronic voting equipment.
    (k) The name of the clerk, either the county clerk or a designated municipal clerk, who shall
 download the early voting poll book.
    (l) The supervision and staffing of each early voting site on each day of early voting.
    (m) Information on how a receiving board or a group of election inspectors will be
 appointed to canvass the early vote returns on election day and report early voting results to
 the county clerk.
    (n) The process for a participating municipality or county clerk to withdraw from the
 agreement.
    (2) The county clerk shall appoint a coordinator to organize and monitor the administrative
 requirements of early voting. The coordinator may be the county clerk or a member of the
 county clerk's staff, or a municipal clerk, or a member of the municipal clerk's staff, that is
 party to the agreement. The coordinator shall provide oversight to ensure sufficient resources
 are available and are timely dispatched to each early voting site. The coordinator shall develop
 the early voting plan, in consultation with the clerks of participating municipalities to the
 county agreement.
    (3) The county clerk shall designate which clerk, either the county clerk or a designated
 municipal clerk, shall download the early voting poll book.
    (4) On request of the county clerk, a clerk of a participating municipality shall make
 available, to the extent possible, tabulators, early voting poll books, and ballot containers for
 conducting early voting.
    (5) In accordance with section 662, the county clerk, after consulting the municipal clerks,
 shall submit each early voting site location to the board of county election commissioners for
 approval. Each early voting site submitted for approval may serve all electors covered by the
 county agreement, the electors in specific municipalities that are covered by an early voting
 site, the electors of 1 municipality, or any combination of these options, as long as each elector
 in the county is served by 1 or more early voting sites.
    (6) A municipal clerk shall recruit election inspectors at the request of the county clerk, or
 shall provide the county clerk with the list of election inspectors for the clerk's municipality.
 The board of county election commissioners shall, in accordance with section 674, appoint
 election inspectors for early voting.
    (7) The county clerk may appoint a participating municipal clerk or a member of the county
 clerk's staff to act as a supervisor for each day of early voting. The county clerk may appoint a
 different participating municipal clerk or a member of the county clerk's staff to act as a
 supervisor for different days of early voting. The supervisor shall operate in the same manner
 as a municipal clerk does for an election day polling place. A supervisor may delegate the
 supervisor's duties to a member of the supervisor's staff.
    (8) For each federal and statewide election, there must be 1 or more early voting sites that
 are open to all the registered electors of each municipality that is a party to the county
 agreement.
    (9) The county clerk may also offer early voting on additional days beyond the required 9
 consecutive days as described in section 720b. The county clerk may set the hours for those


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 additional days of early voting without regard to the required hours for early voting on the 9
 consecutive days of early voting described in section 720b. Additional days of early voting as
 described in this subsection must take place on or after the twenty-ninth day before an
 election.
    (10) The legislative body of a municipality that is party to a county agreement may adopt a
 resolution to conduct early voting in an election to be held in the municipality that is not a
 statewide or federal election. If a municipality adopts a resolution as provided in this
 subsection, the clerk of that municipality may conduct early voting for that election as
 provided under section 720e.
    (11) A county clerk and the legislative body of 1 or more municipalities may enter into an
 agreement for the county clerk to conduct early voting in an election that is not a statewide or
 federal election. This section does not preclude a county clerk and a municipality from
 entering into an agreement for the county clerk to conduct early voting for an election in the
 municipality that is not a statewide or federal election. Early voting in those elections must be
 conducted under the requirements of this section, except that the required minimum of 9
 consecutive days of early voting beginning on the second Saturday before the election and
 ending on the Sunday before the election, and the required minimum of 8 hours of early voting
 each day, do not apply.
    (12) A county agreement covers all statewide and federal elections, and any additional
 elections included in the county agreement, for at least the entire year in which a general
 November election is held and the year following that general November election. Subject to
 this subsection, a county agreement may provide that the agreement has no fixed termination
 date. Subject to this subsection, a party to a county agreement may withdraw from the county
 agreement by providing at least 30 days' written notice to the other parties to the agreement. A
 party to a county agreement may not withdraw from the county agreement during the period
 beginning 150 days before the first statewide general November election in an even numbered
 year and ending on the completion of the county canvass for that statewide general November
 election in that even numbered year. If any county agreement covers any election in addition
 to the statewide and federal elections, a party to that county agreement may not withdraw from
 the county agreement during the period beginning 150 days before the election covered under
 the county agreement and ending on the completion of the county canvass for that election.