§ 168.759bEmergency absent voters' ballot; application

Sec. 759b.
    Any registered elector may apply for absent voter ballots at any time prior to 4 p.m. on
 election day if he shall have become physically disabled or shall be absent from the city or
 township because of sickness or death in the family which has occurred at a time which has
 made it impossible to apply for absent voter ballots by the statutory deadline. The application
 shall be called an emergency absent voter application.
    Emergency absent voter applications may be made by letter or on a form provided by the
 clerk. The application shall set forth that the voter is qualified to vote in the election, stating
 the statutory reason for applying for an emergency absent voter ballot and that the reason for
 applying after the statutory deadline occurred at such a time to make it impossible to file an
 application for absent voter ballots by the statutory deadline.
    Any person intentionally making a false statement in such application is guilty of a felony.
 Any person aiding or abetting any person to make a false statement on such application is
 guilty of a felony.
    Upon receipt by the clerk of a valid application for an emergency absent voter ballot, the
 clerk may deliver the ballots to the applicant in person, through a deputy or an election
 assistant, or he may deliver them at his office to a person named by the applicant in the
 application. The voter may return the ballots to the clerk in the sealed envelope provided
 therefor in any manner he sees fit. To be valid, ballots must be returned to the clerk in time to
 be delivered to the polls prior to 8 p.m. on election day.