TrustVoting Atlas

ballots; notifications; confidentiality.
 Sec. 764c.
    (1) The secretary of state shall establish, acquire, or approve an electronic tracking system
 that allows each elector who applies to vote by absent voter ballot at an election to track, on a
 website or mobile application, that elector's absent voter ballot application and absent voter
 ballot.
    (2) For each elector who votes by absent voter ballot at an election, the electronic tracking
 system described in subsection (1) must indicate all of the following:
    (a) The date the elector's city or township clerk received the elector's absent voter ballot
 application.
    (b) If the elector's absent voter ballot application was accepted, the date of the acceptance,
 and if the elector's absent voter ballot application was rejected, all of the following:
    (i) A brief statement of the reason for the rejection.
    (ii) Instructions for curing the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot application, along
 with the deadline for curing the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot application.
    (iii) If the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot application is cured by the elector and
 the absent voter ballot application is accepted by the elector's city or township clerk, an update
 that the elector's absent voter ballot application was accepted and the date of the acceptance.
    (c) The date the elector's city or township clerk mailed or delivered the absent voter ballot to
 the elector, or for an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter under section 759a, the
 date the absent uniformed services voter's or overseas voter's city or township clerk mailed or



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 electronically transmitted the absent voter ballot to the absent uniformed services voter or
 overseas voter.
    (d) If the elector's absent voter ballot was returned to the city or township as undeliverable.
    (e) The date the elector's city or township clerk received the elector's absent voter ballot
 return envelope, or for an eligible member, as that term is defined under section 759a(17), who
 returns the absent voter ballot electronically, the date the eligible member's absent voter ballot
 is electronically received.
    (f) If the elector's absent voter ballot return envelope was accepted, the date of the
 acceptance, and if the elector's absent voter ballot return envelope was rejected, all of the
 following:
    (i) A brief statement of the reason for the rejection.
    (ii) Instructions for curing the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot return envelope,
 along with the deadline for curing the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot return
 envelope.
    (iii) If the issue with the elector's absent voter ballot return envelope is cured by the elector
 and the absent voter ballot return envelope is accepted by the elector's city or township clerk,
 an update that the elector's absent voter ballot return envelope was accepted and the date of the
 acceptance, and a statement that the elector's absent voter ballot is eligible to be tabulated.
    (3) An elector must be permitted to opt in to receive notifications from the electronic
 tracking system by email, text message, or both email and text message. If an elector opts in
 under this subsection, each time any of the events described in subsection (2) occurs regarding
 that elector's absent voter ballot application, absent voter ballot return envelope, or absent
 voter ballot, the electronic tracking system must immediately notify that elector of the event
 by email, text message, or both email and text message, as requested by that elector.
    (4) An email address or telephone number provided by an elector in order to receive
 notifications from the electronic tracking system must be used only by authorized individuals
 who have access to the qualified voter file or by individuals authorized by the secretary of
 state to maintain the electronic tracking system, and is confidential and exempt from
 disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.