Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.515 (2026)

Registration records; verification by house-to-house canvass.

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MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW

Act 116 of 1954

168.515 Registration records; verification by house-to-house canvass.

Sec. 515.

The several township, city and village clerks may conduct a house-to-house canvass or use such other means of checking the correctness of registration records as may seem expedient.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1971–2007 · leading case: In Re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 Pa 71, 740 N.W.2d 444 (Mich. 2007).

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In Re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 Pa 71, 740 N.W.2d 444 (Mich. 2007). · cites it 2× “507b; verifying the correctness of registration records by conducting a house-to-house canvas, MCL 168.515; and even registering voters confined in jail, MCL 168.”

Wilkins v. Ann Arbor City Clerk, 189 N.W.2d 423 (Mich. 1971). · cites it 4× “1513) which provides that upon information that the elector has moved from the municipality the clerk may, after notice and time elapsed, cancel the registration, and MCLA § 168.515 (Stat Ann 1956 Rev § 6.1515) which authorizes clerks to make a house to house canvass or "other…”

Michigan State UAW Cmty. Action Prog. Council v. Sec'y of State, 198 N.W.2d 385 (Mich. 1972). · cites it 2× “" Under section 515 (MCLA 168.515; MSA 6.1515), the clerk could send out letters to all persons who did not vote once in two years with a request that the mail not be forwarded if the elector no longer *520 resided in the municipality.”

Taylor v. Currie, 386 F. Supp. 2d 929 (E.D. Mich. 2005). “1 Plaintiff seeks “Mandamus” and injunctive relief which would, among other things, order Defendants Jackie Currie and Detroit Elections Commission to: (1) show cause why they should not purge their rolls of all absentee voters whose applications were returned as undeliverable…”

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