| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to elections; requiring publication of temporary polling locations; amending |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 203B.081, subdivision 4. |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 203B.081, subdivision 4, is amended to read: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Subd. 4.Temporary locations.(a) A county auditor or municipal clerk authorized under |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7section 203B.05 to administer voting before election day may designate additional polling |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8places with days and hours that differ from those required by section 203B.085. A designation |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9authorized by this subdivision must be made at least 47 days before the election. The county |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10auditor or municipal clerk must provide notice to the secretary of state at the time that the |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11designations are made. |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12 (b) At the request of a federally recognized Indian Tribe with a reservation in the county, |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13the county auditor must establish an additional polling place for at least one day on the |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14Indian reservation on a site agreed upon by the Tribe and the county auditor that is accessible |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15to the county auditor by a public road. |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (c) At the request of a postsecondary institution or the student government organization |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17of a postsecondary institution in the county or municipality, the county auditor or a municipal |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18clerk authorized to administer absentee voting under section 203B.05 must establish an |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19additional temporary polling place for the state general election or the odd-year city general |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20election for at least one day at a location agreed upon by the institution and the county |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21auditor or municipal clerk that: |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22 (1) is accessible to the public; |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 25-01260 as introduced12/09/24 REVISOR JFK/CH |
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| 25 | 25 | | SENATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 27 | 27 | | S.F. No. 600NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 28 | 28 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: KORAN, Bahr, Limmer, Mathews and Lucero) |
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| 29 | 29 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 30 | 30 | | Introduction and first reading01/27/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Referred to Elections 2.1 (2) satisfies the requirements of state and federal law; and |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.2 (3) is on the institution's campus or is within one-half mile of the institution's campus |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.3and is reasonably accessible to the institution's students. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.4A request must be made no later than May 31 before an election and the request is valid |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.5only for that election. This paragraph only applies to a postsecondary institution that provides |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.6on-campus student housing to 100 or more students. Nothing in this paragraph prevents the |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.7county auditor or municipal clerk from engaging in a dialogue with the entity that made the |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.8request regarding potential alternative locations for a temporary polling place that does not |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.9meet the requirements of clause (3). An entity that made a request for a temporary polling |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.10place may withdraw its request by notifying the county auditor or municipal clerk. |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2.11 (d) Within five business days of designating an additional polling place under this |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2.12subdivision, the county auditor or municipal clerk must post on the county's or municipality's |
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| 43 | 43 | | 2.13website the address of the polling place and the dates and times the polling place will be |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2.14available for voting. Within five business days of receiving the notice described in paragraph |
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| 45 | 45 | | 2.15(a), the secretary of state must post on the secretary of state's website the address of the |
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| 46 | 46 | | 2.16polling place and the dates and times the polling place will be available for voting. |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 48 | 48 | | 25-01260 as introduced12/09/24 REVISOR JFK/CH |
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