SB 366

Under current law, polling places are required to be established for each

election at least 30 days before the election. Under this bill, under no circumstance

may a municipality close more than one-half of its polling places within 30 days

before an election. Additionally, the bill prohibits a municipality from closing any

polling place within 30 days before an election without both the head of the governing

body of the municipality and the municipal clerk approving the closures and without

the municipal clerk doing all of the following:

1. Posting public notice of the closures on the municipality's website or, if the

municipality does not maintain a website, posting notices in at least 3 different

locations within the municipality reasonably calculated to notify the most residents.

2. Publishing three notices in a newspaper likely to give notice in the area

notifying the public of the closures.

3. Publishing two notices or one notice in a newspaper likely to give notice in

the area if time does not permit publication of three notices.

Additionally, under the bill, if after an election and more than 30 days before

the next election, a municipality wishes to discontinue a polling place location, the

municipality's governing body may approve the discontinuation only after a public

hearing at which the public has an opportunity to present testimony on the proposed

discontinuation.