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Chapter 204C
Section 204C.10
Recent History
- 2025 204C.10 Amended 2025 c 39 art 8 s 66
- 2023 204C.10 Amended 2023 c 62 art 4 s 92
- 2023 204C.10 Amended 2023 c 12 s 5
- 2019 204C.10 Amended 2019 c 10 art 4 s 4
- 2017 204C.10 Amended 2017 c 92 art 1 s 18
- 2016 204C.10 Amended 2016 c 162 s 7
- 2014 204C.10 Amended 2014 c 288 art 2 s 5
- 2006 204C.10 Amended 2006 c 242 s 1
- 2005 204C.10 Amended 2005 c 156 art 6 s 45
- 2004 204C.10 Amended 2004 c 293 art 1 s 31
- 1999 204C.10 Amended 1999 c 132 s 21
This is an historical version of this statute chapter. Also view the most recent published version.
204C.10 PERMANENT REGISTRATION; VERIFICATION OF REGISTRATION.
(a) An individual seeking to vote shall sign a polling place roster which states that the
individual is at least 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States, has resided in Minnesota for 20
days immediately preceding the election, maintains residence at the address shown, is not under a
guardianship in which the court order revokes the individual's right to vote, has not been found by
a court of law to be legally incompetent to vote or has the right to vote because, if the individual
was convicted of a felony, the felony sentence has expired or been completed or the individual
has been discharged from the sentence, is registered and has not already voted in the election.
The roster must also state: "I understand that deliberately providing false information is a felony
punishable by not more than five years imprisonment and a fine of not more than $10,000, or both."
(b) A judge may, before the applicant signs the roster, confirm the applicant's name, address,
and date of birth.
(c) After the applicant signs the roster, the judge shall give the applicant a voter's receipt.
The voter shall deliver the voter's receipt to the judge in charge of ballots as proof of the voter's
right to vote, and thereupon the judge shall hand to the voter the ballot. The voters' receipts must
be maintained during the time for notice of filing an election contest.
History: 1981 c 29 art 5 s 10; 1981 c 92 s 3; 1981 c 217 s 6; 1983 c 253 s 12; 1984 c 560
s 15; 1986 c 444; 1990 c 585 s 27; 1999 c 132 s 21; 2004 c 293 art 1 s 31; 2005 c 156 art 6 s
45; 2006 c 242 s 22
(a) An individual seeking to vote shall sign a polling place roster which states that the
individual is at least 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States, has resided in Minnesota for 20
days immediately preceding the election, maintains residence at the address shown, is not under a
guardianship in which the court order revokes the individual's right to vote, has not been found by
a court of law to be legally incompetent to vote or has the right to vote because, if the individual
was convicted of a felony, the felony sentence has expired or been completed or the individual
has been discharged from the sentence, is registered and has not already voted in the election.
The roster must also state: "I understand that deliberately providing false information is a felony
punishable by not more than five years imprisonment and a fine of not more than $10,000, or both."
(b) A judge may, before the applicant signs the roster, confirm the applicant's name, address,
and date of birth.
(c) After the applicant signs the roster, the judge shall give the applicant a voter's receipt.
The voter shall deliver the voter's receipt to the judge in charge of ballots as proof of the voter's
right to vote, and thereupon the judge shall hand to the voter the ballot. The voters' receipts must
be maintained during the time for notice of filing an election contest.
History: 1981 c 29 art 5 s 10; 1981 c 92 s 3; 1981 c 217 s 6; 1983 c 253 s 12; 1984 c 560
s 15; 1986 c 444; 1990 c 585 s 27; 1999 c 132 s 21; 2004 c 293 art 1 s 31; 2005 c 156 art 6 s
45; 2006 c 242 s 22
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