1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to elections; revising procedures for 
  1.3             combining precincts for school district elections; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 205A.11. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 205A.11, is 
  1.7   amended to read: 
  1.8      205A.11 [PRECINCTS; POLLING PLACES.] 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [ESTABLISHED PRECINCTS.] School district 
  1.10  elections held on the day of a statewide election must be 
  1.11  conducted in the precincts~~,~~ or, when the school district 
  1.12  boundary divides a precinct, parts of precincts that have been 
  1.13  established by the county or municipal governing bodies as 
  1.14  provided in section 204B.14.  If an election other than the 
  1.15  school district election is being held in any part of a 
  1.16  precinct, all the voters of the precinct must vote at the 
  1.17  polling place designated for the precinct as provided in section 
  1.18  204B.14.  
  1.19     Subd. 2.  [COMBINED POLLING PLACE.] ~~If there is an election~~ 
  1.20  ~~being conducted in some but not all of the precincts in the~~ 
  1.21  ~~school district, for those precincts in which no other election~~ 
  1.22  ~~is being conducted~~ At a school district election not held on the 
  1.23  day of a statewide election, the school board may designate ~~a~~ 
  1.24  combined polling ~~place~~ places at which the voters in ~~up to ten~~ 
  1.25  two or more precincts may vote in the school district election.  
  2.1   ~~If there is no other election being conducted in any part of the~~ 
  2.2   ~~school district, the school board may establish a single polling~~ 
  2.3   ~~place at which all the voters must vote.~~ 
  2.4      Subd. 3.  [PROCEDURE.] ~~The school board must notify the~~ 
  2.5   ~~county auditor within 30 days after the establishment of a~~ 
  2.6   ~~polling place as provided in this section.  The notice must~~ 
  2.7   ~~include a list of the precincts that will be voting at each~~ 
  2.8   ~~polling place.~~  The school board may, by resolution adopted at 
  2.9   least 45 days before an election, establish a combined polling 
  2.10  place as provided in subdivision 2.  The resolution must 
  2.11  designate the precincts that will be served by each combined 
  2.12  polling place.  After adoption of the resolution, the district 
  2.13  shall cause a copy of the resolution and a map of the precincts 
  2.14  being served by each combined polling place to be filed with the 
  2.15  county auditor, cause the map to be posted at the administrative 
  2.16  offices of the school district, and cause a notice of the 
  2.17  election to be published in the official newspaper of the 
  2.18  district.  The notice must include information concerning the 
  2.19  location of the combined polling place and the precincts to be 
  2.20  served by that combined polling place.  If a school board has 
  2.21  previously adopted combined precincts under this section, the 
  2.22  polling place serving a combined precinct must be considered a 
  2.23  combined polling place without further action by the school 
  2.24  board.  The school board must send the notice required by 
  2.25  section 204B.16, subdivision 1a, after a new combined polling 
  2.26  place is established as provided in this section, but no 
  2.27  additional notices of this kind are required for any subsequent 
  2.28  similar elections until the location of the polling place or the 
  2.29  combination of precincts voting at the polling place is changed; 
  2.30  provided, that if an election other than the school district 
  2.31  election is also being held on the same day in any part of an 
  2.32  established precinct and all the voters in an established 
  2.33  precinct that would otherwise be served by a combined polling 
  2.34  place will be voting at their normal polling places, the notice 
  2.35  required by section 204B.16 is not required.  The secretary of 
  2.36  state shall provide a single polling place roster for use in any 
  3.1   polling place established as provided in this section.  A single 
  3.2   set of election judges must be appointed to serve in 
  3.3   the combined polling place.  The number of election judges 
  3.4   required must be based on the total number of persons voting at 
  3.5   the last similar election in all the precincts to be voting at 
  3.6   the single combined polling place.  A single ballot box may be 
  3.7   provided for all the ballots. 
  3.8      Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.9      This act is effective the day following final enactment.