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LR 2072
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The registrar shall prepare and keep a voter registration file
containing the voter registration documents for each voter on the
voting list, arranged alphabetically by the last name of each
voter, except that any voter certified by the Secretary of State__
as a program participant in the Address Confidentiality Program
pursuant to Title 5, section 90-B must be listed only by the voter
code assigned to that individual under the program and placed at
the end of the alphabetized voter list. The file must contain an
original, signed voter registration application for each voter,
with all associated applications containing changes of name,
address or enrollment and any documentation concerning these
applications or the qualifications for these voters. Information
in the file pertaining to any voter certified by the Secretary of
State as a program participant in the Address Confidentiality
Program pursuant to Title 5, section 90-B must be kept under seal
and excluded from public inspection. When the name of a voter is
removed from the voting list, the registrar shall indicate on the
voter's registration documents the date that the voter's name was
removed from the list and retain the documents for 5 years, either
in the same file, or in a separate file.

 
Sec. 7. 21-A MRSA §753-C is enacted to read:

 
§753-C.__Absentee ballots for program participants in Address

 
Confidentiality Program

 
Any registered voter who is certified by the Secretary of
State as a program participant in the Address Confidentiality
Program pursuant to Title 5, section 90-B is entitled to receive
an absentee ballot for every election during the period of the
voter's participation in the program.__The clerk shall mail the
absentee ballot to the voter at the voter's designated address as
soon as possible after the regular ballots are available in the
municipality.__The voter shall mark the absentee ballot in
accordance with the procedures set forth in section 754-A and
shall return the ballot to the registrar in the manner provided
in section 754-A, except that the voter may sign the voter's
voter code under the Address Confidentiality Program on the
absentee ballot envelope instead of the voter's name.

 
Sec. 8. 21-A MRSA §754-A, first ¶, as amended by PL 1999, c. 645, §7,
is further amended to read:

 
Except as provided in section 753-B, subsection 8 and section
753-C, the method of voting by absentee ballot is as follows.


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