Minnesota Administrative Rules

8230.4390 CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION JUDGES.

The election judges shall sign a "certificate of election judges." The certificate must state:

A.

the number of persons voting as shown on the summary statement;

B.

that the order of the offices and questions to be voted on and the candidates' names on the ballots was the same on the zero tape and the sample ballot;

C.

the number of ballots in the transfer case;

D.

that the ballots have been counted and agree with the number of names as shown on the summary statement or that any discrepancy has been noted on the incident report;

E.

the number of excess ballots, if any;

F.

that all ballots requiring duplication were duplicated and are in the proper envelope;

G.

that the number of write-in votes for each office has been properly recorded, if this process was done at the polling place;

H.

that all ballots used in the election and all ballots that have been duplicated have been placed in the transfer case and the case was securely sealed with an official seal in such a manner as to render it impossible to open the case without breaking the seal; and

I.

the numbers of any seals used to seal the transfer cases.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 206.57; 206.81

History:

23 SR 459; 25 SR 616

Published Electronically:

October 16, 2000