1997 Minnesota Statutes

     204D.09 Sample primary ballots. 

    At least two weeks before the state primary the county 
 auditor shall prepare a sample state partisan primary ballot and 
 a sample state and county nonpartisan primary ballot for public 
 inspection.  The names of all of the candidates to be voted for 
 in the county shall be placed on the sample ballots, with the 
 names of the candidates for each office arranged alphabetically 
 according to the surname.  Only one sample state partisan 
 primary ballot and one sample state and county nonpartisan 
 ballot shall be prepared for any county.  The county auditor 
 shall post the sample ballots in a conspicuous place in the 
 auditor's office and shall cause them to be published at least 
 one week before the state primary in at least one newspaper of 
 general circulation in the county.  

    HIST: 1981 c 29 art 6 s 9; 1986 c 444