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hearing, the municipal officers must prepare a certificate defining | | the limits of each district. They must file the certificate with | | the clerk who shall record it. The clerk shall immediately file an | | attested copy of the certificate with the Secretary of State. The | | clerk shall post an attested copy of the certificate in a | | conspicuous, public place in the town or ward, and shall publish it | | in at least one newspaper having general circulation in the | municipality at least 30 days before election day. The clerk shall | file an attested copy of the certificate with the Secretary of | State. | | into a lesser number of districts by following the same procedure. | | Voting districts may be established or consolidated under this | | section for all or only certain classes of elections. If the | | municipal officers determine that there is no building within a | voting district which | | described in section 627, the municipal officers may, subject to | | the approval of the Secretary of State, establish a voting place | outside the voting district in a suitable building which | | close as possible to the voting district and as convenient as | | possible to the voters of the voting district. |
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| | | Sec. 17. 21-A MRSA §681, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 1993, c. 33, §1, | | is further amended to read: |
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| | B. If a voter is accompanied by a child of 12 | | age or younger, the child may enter the voting booth with | | the voter. |
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| | | Sec. 18. 21-A MRSA §698, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 4. Ballots and lists returned. The warden shall deliver the | | ballots and lists to the clerk immediately upon conclusion of the | | ballot count.__In a municipality that has an island voting | | district, the warden must deliver the ballots and lists within 24 | | hours after the polls have closed. |
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| | | Sec. 19. 21-A MRSA §722, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 436, §104, | | is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | | 1.__How tabulated.__The Secretary of State shall tabulate all | | votes that appear by an election return to have been cast for a | | candidate whose name appeared on the ballot.__All write-in | | candidates, as defined in section 1, subsection 51, receiving | | less than 5% of the votes cast for that office must be titled | | "others" when the tabulation is processed. |
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| | | Sec. 20. 21-A MRSA §722-A is enacted to read: |
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