2005 Minnesota Statutes

     204C.18 Ballots; secrecy. 

    Subdivision 1.    Party preferences; protection of 
 secrecy.  The election judges shall make no entry or notation 
 in the election register or anywhere else showing the political 
 party to which a voter belongs or for which political party the 
 voter voted.  No election judge shall knowingly permit anyone in 
 the polling place to make such an entry or notation.  

    Subd. 2.    Ballots; identifying marks; penalty.  No 
 voter, election judge, or other individual shall place at any 
 time a mark as a means of identification upon any ballot handed 
 to or cast by a voter or upon spoiled or discarded ballots, 
 except the initials authorized by section 204C.09.  A violation 
 of this subdivision is a gross misdemeanor.  

    HIST: 1981 c 29 art 5 s 18; 1986 c 444