HF 271

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

A bill for an act
relating to elections; imposing certain requirements
on presidential electors and the secretary of state;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08, is
amended to read:

208.08 ELECTORS TO MEET AT STATE CAPITOL.

The original and substituted presidential electors, at
12:00 M., shall meet in the executive chamber at the State
Capitol and shall perform all the duties imposed upon them as
electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States and
this state. new text begin Each elector, as a condition of having been elected
under the name of a presidential and a vice-presidential
candidate, is obligated to vote for those candidates. The
elector shall vote by public ballot and speak aloud the name of
the candidate for president and for vice president for whom the
elector is voting. If an elector fails to cast a vote for the
presidential or vice-presidential candidate under whose name the
elector was elected, the elector's vote or abstention is
invalidated and the secretary of state automatically becomes an
agent for the elector and shall cast a ballot in the name of the
elector for the presidential and vice-presidential candidate
under whose name the elector was elected. The invalidation of
an elector's vote does not apply if the presidential or
vice-presidential candidate under whose name the elector was
elected has unconditionally released the elector or has died or
become mentally disabled.
new text end