CHAPTER 364

H.P. 768 - L.D. 1115

An Act To Facilitate Voting by Participants in the Address

Confidentiality Program

Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §1, sub-§21, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, is amended to read:

21. Incoming voting list. "Incoming voting list" means the list of all of the voters in a municipality which that is used by election officials at a voting place to record which voters have been issued a ballot at an election. The list must include the following information for each voter and may not include any other information:__name; residence address; enrollment status; electoral district; voter status, active or inactive; voter record number; designations regarding challenged ballots and absentee ballots; and any special designations indicating uniformed service voters, overseas voters or township voters. The portion of the incoming voting list relating to Address Confidentiality Program participants must be kept under seal and excluded from public inspection.