1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; permitting the transcription by election judges of 
1.3 	machine-unreadable ballot cards under certain circumstances;amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 206.90, subdivision 8.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 206.90, subdivision 8, is 
1.7 	amended to read:
1.8 		Subd. 8.Duties of election officials. The official in charge of elections in each 
1.9 	municipality where an optical scan voting system is used shall have the electronic ballot 
1.10 	marker that examines and marks votes on ballot cards or the machine that securely 
1.11 	transmits a ballot electronically to automatic tabulating equipment in the polling place 
1.12 	and the automatic tabulating equipment that examines and counts votes as ballot cards are 
1.13 	deposited into ballot boxes put in order, set, adjusted, and made ready for voting when 
1.14 	delivered to the election precincts. Whenever a ballot card created by an electronic ballot 
1.15 	marker certified by the secretary of state is rejected by an optical scan voting system, two 
1.16 	election judges who are members of different major political parties shall transcribe the 
1.17 	votes on the ballot rejected by the optical scan voting system pursuant to the procedures 
1.18 	set forth in section 206.86, subdivision 5.

1.19 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.20 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.