1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; requiring presidential electors
1.3 	to vote by public ballot and speak aloud the name of
1.4 	the candidates for whom they are voting; amending
1.5 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 208.08, is
1.8 	amended to read:
1.9 	208.08 ELECTORS TO MEET AT STATE CAPITOL.
1.10 	The original and substituted presidential electors, at
1.11 	12:00 M., shall meet in the executive chamber at the State
1.12 	Capitol and shall perform all the duties imposed upon them as
1.13 	electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States and
1.14 	this state. They shall vote by public ballot and speak aloud
1.15 	the name of the candidate for president and for vice president
1.16 	for whom they are voting.