Amend the bill in section 10 in subsection 2 in the last 6 lines (page 3, lines 23 to 28 in L.D.) by striking out all of the underlined language.
Amend the bill by inserting after section 13 the following:
‘Sec. 14. 21-A MRSA §606-A, as amended by PL 1995, c. 459, §45, is further amended to read:
A voter who registers and votes under section 156 in a municipality outside his the voter's state representative district, state senatorial district, county or county commissioner district or county, may vote for the offices of Representative to the Legislature, State Senator or any county office by using a ballot obtained under this section.
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
Summary
This amendment strikes the provision of the bill that applies to a township voter who uses the special provision in election law that permits the voter to vote in a nearby municipality when a voting place has not been established in the voter's township. The bill provides that if the township voter fails to register prior to 60 days before an election and the town does not have sufficient ballots for that township voter, the voter must vote a ballot from the municipality that has been amended to include only those questions and offices for which the township voter is eligible to vote. This amendment allows for more flexibility to provide correct ballots to a township voter who registers after 60 days prior to an election and provides that the voter will only have to vote using an amended ballot when there is not enough time to furnish the election clerk with sufficient township ballots.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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