1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; imposing certain requirements
1.3 	on presidential electors and the secretary of state;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08, is
1.7 	amended to read:
1.8 	208.08 ELECTORS TO MEET AT STATE CAPITOL.
1.9 	The original and substituted presidential electors, at
1.10 	12:00 M., shall meet in the executive chamber at the State
1.11 	Capitol and shall perform all the duties imposed upon them as
1.12 	electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States and
1.13 	this state. Each elector, as a condition of having been elected
1.14 	under the name of a presidential and a vice-presidential
1.15 	candidate, is obligated to vote for those candidates.  The
1.16 	elector shall vote by public ballot and speak aloud the name of
1.17 	the candidate for president and for vice president for whom the
1.18 	elector is voting.  If an elector fails to cast a vote for the
1.19 	presidential or vice-presidential candidate under whose name the
1.20 	elector was elected, the elector's vote or abstention is
1.21 	invalidated and the secretary of state automatically becomes an
1.22 	agent for the elector and shall cast a ballot in the name of the
1.23 	elector for the presidential and vice-presidential candidate
1.24 	under whose name the elector was elected.  The invalidation of
1.25 	an elector's vote does not apply if the presidential or
2.1 	vice-presidential candidate under whose name the elector was
2.2 	elected has unconditionally released the elector or has died or
2.3 	become mentally disabled.