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| 21. Incoming voting list. "Incoming voting list" means the list | | of all of the voters in a municipality 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. The residence address for any voter whose address has | | been made confidential pursuant to section 22, subsection 3, | | paragraph B may not be printed on the incoming voting list, and the | | words "address is confidential" must be printed on the list | | instead. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 21-A MRSA §22, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2005, c. 364, §2, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | 3. Confidential information. Notwithstanding subsection 1 | and Title 1, section 408, if a registered voter is certified by | the Secretary of State as a program participant in the Address | Confidentiality Program pursuant to Title 5, section 90-B, all | records maintained by the registrar pertaining to that voter must | be kept confidential and must be excluded from public inspection | | meets certain conditions, the voter's information must be kept | | confidential as provided in this subsection. |
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| | | A.__For a voter who is certified by the Secretary of State | | as a program participant in the Address Confidentiality | | Program pursuant to Title 5, section 90-B, all records | | maintained by the registrar pertaining to that voter must be | | kept confidential and must be excluded from public | | inspection. |
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| | | B.__For a voter who submits to the registrar a signed statement | | that the voter has a good reason to believe that the physical | | safety of the voter or a member of the voter's immediate family | | residing with the voter would be jeopardized if the voter's | | residence address were open to public inspection, that voter's | | residence address and mailing address, if the mailing address is | | the same as or discloses the voter's residence address, must be | | kept confidential and must be excluded from public inspection.__ | | The remainder of the information in that voter's record that is | | designated as public information in section 196 remains a public | | record and may be made available to the public |
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