§ 168.798bElectronic tabulating equipment; unofficial and official returns; manual count;

accumulation report.
 Sec. 798b.
    (1) The county clerk may conduct an unofficial count in order to provide early unofficial
 returns to the public. Upon completion of the count, the official returns shall be open to the
 public. The return of the electronic tabulating equipment, to which have been added the write-
 in and absentee votes if necessary, shall constitute, after being duly certified, the official return
 of each precinct or election district. If it becomes impracticable to count all or a part of the
 ballots with tabulating equipment, the clerk may direct that they be counted manually,
 following as far as practicable the provisions governing the counting of paper ballots. An
 accumulation report of unofficial results using the tabulated votes available after 8 p.m. on
 election day must be compiled and published using a format that clearly indicates all of the
 following:
    (a) The election day precinct results.
    (b) The corresponding absent voter ballot counting board results.
    (c) The corresponding early voting results.
    (d) The sum of subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) for each precinct and contest.
    (2) For a city or township with 250 or more precincts using common ballot forms instead of
 the election day precinct format in the absent voter counting boards and early voting sites, the
 accumulation report will not report results from absent voter counting boards or early voting
 sites as corresponding to election day precincts. Accumulation reports in each city or township
 described in this subsection must report the results for each election day precinct and
 separately report the results of each absent voter counting board and the corresponding early
 voting results. Each common ballot form may constitute at least 1 separate absent voter
 counting board and early voting precinct.