2005 Minnesota Statutes - 204D.09 — Example ballots; sample primary ballots.

     204D.09 Example ballots; sample primary ballots. 


    Subdivision 1.    Example ballot.  (a) No later than 
 June 1 of each year, the secretary of state shall supply each 
 auditor with a copy of an example ballot.  The example ballot 
 must illustrate the format required for the ballots used in the 
 primary and general elections that year. 


    (b) The county auditor shall distribute copies of the 
 example ballot to municipal and school district clerks in 
 municipalities and school districts holding elections that 
 year.  The official ballot must conform in all respects to the 
 example ballot. 


    Subd. 2.    Sample ballot.  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; 1Sp2001 c 10 art 18 s 
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