§172. Voter registration file

The registrar shall prepare and keep a voter registration file containing the voter registration documents for each voter on the voting list in the central voter registration system, 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 on voter registration documents only by the voter code assigned to that voter under the program and these documents must be placed at the end of the alphabetized voter file. 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 must be kept under seal and excluded from public inspection. When the name of a voter is removed a voter's registration is cancelled from the voting list central voter registration system, the registrar shall indicate on the voter's registration documents the date that the voter's name registration was removed from the list cancelled and retain the documents for 5 years, either in the same file, or in a separate file. The registrar must retain the voter registration documents for each rejected voter in a separate file for the time period specified in section 23.

Sec. 6. 21-A MRSA §191, sub-§4 is enacted to read:

4.__Address confidentiality component.__For the purposes of generating an incoming voting list, the central voter registration system must be capable of being sorted so that the Address Confidentiality Program voter codes and the address assigned each voter by the program appear at the end of the alphabetized list and are printed on a separate page of the list.

Sec. 7. 21-A MRSA §753-B, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2003, c. 407, §§24 and 25, is further amended to read:

6. Clerk to keep list of absentee voters. The clerk shall keep create and maintain, in the central voter registration system, an alphabetical list, by district, of the persons who requested or were furnished absentee ballots, including the persons who voted in the presence of the clerk under subsection 8 and the persons whose ballots were issued to a 3rd person under subsection 1. The clerk shall maintain a copy of the lists