Minnesota Administrative Rules

8210.2500 MAIL PICKUP.

Each municipal clerk shall communicate with the United States postal service facility serving the municipality with regard to the handling of absentee ballot return envelopes received by the post office on election day after the last regular mail delivery has commenced. The municipal clerk shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that all return envelopes received by the post office before 4 p.m. on election day are delivered before the closing of the polls to the ballot board. Absentee ballots returned by mail delivery and received after election day shall be marked as received late by the county auditor or municipal clerk, and must not be delivered to the ballot board.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 203B.08; 203B.09

History:

17 SR 1279; 38 SR 1368

Published Electronically:

May 1, 2014