Section 168.705 - Official ballots; paper, printing, numbering, color of paper. - Michigan Statutes

MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954

168.705 Official ballots; paper, printing, numbering, color of paper.

Sec. 705.

The ballots of each kind shall be of uniform size and printed in black ink on white paper of a grade equal to 50-pound book, machine finished, and sufficiently thick so that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back. The ballots of each kind shall be perforated diagonally across the upper right-hand corner of the face thereof, so that the corner can be readily torn off. Printed on the detachable corner shall be the name or kind of ballot, and a bold-face letter corresponding to a similar letter on the ballot box. The ballots shall be numbered consecutively on such corner, such number to be printed thereon. This section shall not prohibit the printing of unnumbered ballots for emergency purposes. Such ballots shall, prior to being delivered to the polls, have the numbers printed or stamped on the detachable corners. No 2 ballots of the same kind in the same election precinct shall bear the same number. The election commission may provide for the printing of the ballots on colored paper as follows: State and county ballots, white paper; non-partisan ballots, blue tinted paper; constitutional amendments and state propositions, red tinted paper; county propositions, green tinted paper; local propositions, buff paper; local candidates, white paper. If the election commission prints ballots on colored paper, all instruction ballots shall be printed on any color paper not used for official ballots.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1958, Act 192, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958
Popular Name: Election Code