2005 Minnesota Statutes - 208.08 — Electors to meet at State Capitol.

  208.08 Electors to meet at State Capitol. 


    The original, alternate, and substituted presidential 
 electors, at 12:00 M., shall meet in the executive chamber at 
 the State Capitol and shall perform all the duties imposed upon 
 them as electors by the Constitution and laws of the United 
 States and this state.  


    Each elector, as a condition of having been chosen under 
 the name of the party of a presidential and a vice presidential 
 candidate, is obligated to vote for those candidates.  The 
 elector shall speak aloud or affirm in a nonverbal manner the 
 name of the candidate for president and for vice president for 
 whom the elector is voting and then confirm that vote by written 
 public ballot. 


    If an elector fails to cast a ballot for the presidential 
 or vice presidential candidate of the party under whose name the 
 elector was chosen, the elector's vote or abstention is 
 invalidated and an alternate presidential elector, chosen by lot 
 from among the alternates, shall cast a ballot in the name of 
 the elector for the presidential and vice presidential candidate 
 of the party under whose name the elector was chosen.  The 
 invalidation of an elector's vote or abstention on the ballot 
 for president or vice president does not apply if the 
 presidential candidate under whose party's name the elector was 
 chosen has without condition released the elector or has died or 
 become mentally disabled. 


    HIST: 1959 c 675 art 9 s 8; 1979 c 251 s 7; 2005 c 156 art 6 s 
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