HF 3866

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to elections; permitting the transcription by election judges of
machine-unreadable ballot cards under certain circumstances; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 206.90, subdivision 8.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 206.90, subdivision 8, is
amended to read:

Subd. 8.

Duties of election officials.

The official in charge of elections in each
municipality where an optical scan voting system is used shall have the electronic ballot
marker that examines and marks votes on ballot cards or the machine that securely
transmits a ballot electronically to automatic tabulating equipment in the polling place
and the automatic tabulating equipment that examines and counts votes as ballot cards are
deposited into ballot boxes put in order, set, adjusted, and made ready for voting when
delivered to the election precincts. new text begin Whenever a ballot card created by an electronic ballot
marker certified by the secretary of state is rejected by an optical scan voting system, two
election judges who are members of different major political parties shall transcribe the
votes on the ballot rejected by the optical scan voting system pursuant to the procedures
set forth in section 206.86, subdivision 5.
new text end

Sec. 2. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
new text end

new text begin Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.
new text end