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Panel considers rule setting seven-day deadlines for challenges to candidate affidavits of identity
Summary
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules reviewed a Bureau of Elections proposal to add timelines and procedural rules for challenges to a candidate's affidavit of identity, mirroring petition-challenge deadlines and requiring notarized challenges and defined "good cause" exceptions.
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules heard testimony on a proposed rule that would set deadlines and procedures for challenges to candidates' affidavits of identity. The department said the rule is intended to align affidavit-of-identity challenges with existing petition-challenge timelines in Michigan election law.
Bureau of Elections staff described the proposed rule as requiring that challenges to an affidavit of identity be filed no later than seven calendar days after the filing deadline, and that a…
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