1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; presidential electors; providing for designation of certain 
1.3 	presidential electors and specifying the duties of presidential electors; amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, sections 208.03; 208.08.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 208.03, is amended to read:
1.7 	208.03 NOMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
1.8 	Presidential electors for the major political parties of this state shall be nominated by 
1.9 	delegate conventions called and held under the supervision of the respective state central 
1.10 	committees of the parties of this state. Each major political party shall nominate one 
1.11 	presidential elector from each congressional district and two presidential electors from 
1.12 	the state at-large. On or before primary election day the chair of the major political party 
1.13 	shall certify to the secretary of state the names of the persons nominated as presidential 
1.14 	electors, whether each elector is designated at-large or from a particular congressional 
1.15 	district, and in the latter case, which district the individual represents, the names of 
1.16 	eight alternate presidential electors, and the names of the party candidates for president 
1.17 	and vice president.

1.18 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 208.08, is amended to read:
1.19 	208.08 ELECTORS TO MEET AT STATE CAPITOL.
1.20 	The original, alternate, and substituted presidential electors, at 12:00 M., shall meet 
1.21 	in the executive chamber at the State Capitol and shall perform all the duties imposed 
1.22 	upon them as electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States and this state.
1.23 	Each congressional district presidential elector shall cast a ballot for the presidential and 
2.1 	vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in that congressional 
2.2 	district. Each at-large presidential elector shall cast a ballot for the presidential and 
2.3 	vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the state.
2.4 	Each elector, as a condition of having been chosen under the name of the party 
2.5 	of a presidential and a vice presidential candidate who received the highest number of 
2.6 	votes in the elector's congressional district or, in the case of at-large electors, in the state, 
2.7 	is obligated to vote for those candidates. The elector shall speak aloud or affirm in a 
2.8 	nonverbal manner the name of the candidate for president and for vice president for whom 
2.9 	the elector is voting and then confirm that vote by written public ballot.
2.10 	If an elector fails to cast a ballot for the presidential or vice presidential candidate of 
2.11 	the party under whose name the elector was chosen, the elector's vote or abstention is 
2.12 	invalidated and an alternate presidential elector, chosen by lot from among the alternates, 
2.13 	shall cast a ballot in the name of the elector for the presidential and vice presidential 
2.14 	candidate of the party under whose name the elector was chosen. The invalidation of an 
2.15 	elector's vote or abstention on the ballot for president or vice president does not apply if 
2.16 	the presidential candidate under whose party's name the elector was chosen has without 
2.17 	condition released the elector or has died or become mentally disabled.