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challenges may be accepted by the warden.__The challenged | | person: |
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| | | (1)__Is not a registered voter; |
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| | | (2)__Is not enrolled in the proper party, if voting | | in a primary election; |
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| | | (3)__Is not qualified to be a registered voter | | because the challenged person is not: |
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| | | (a)__At least 18 years of age; |
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| | | (b)__A citizen of the United States; or |
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| | | (c)__A resident of the municipality or | | appropriate electoral district within the | | municipality; |
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| | | (4)__Did not properly apply for an absentee ballot; |
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| | | (6)__Did not properly complete the affidavit on the | | absentee return envelope; |
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| | | (7)__Did not cast the ballot or complete the | | affidavit before the appropriate witness; |
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| | | (8)__Communicated with someone as prohibited by | | section 754-A, subsection 1, paragraph B or | | subsection 3, paragraph B or D; |
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| | | (9)__Did not have the ballot returned to the clerk by | | the time prescribed; |
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| | | (10)__Voted using the name of another; |
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| | | (11)__Committed any other specified violation of this | | Title; or |
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| | | (12)__Voted using the wrong ballot for the | | appropriate electoral district. |
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| | | B.__Registration of a person as a voter without challenge | | from the registrar or clerk is presumptive evidence of the | | person's right to vote.__Any doubt in the interpretation | | of the law must be resolved in favor of the challenged | | voter. |
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| | | Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §673, sub-§§5 and 6 are enacted to read: |
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