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An Act To Modernize Ballot Notices for City Elections
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §2554, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2 and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
 
3. Specimen ballots and instruction posters.   At least 4 days before election day, the clerk shall post a specimen ballot in one or more conspicuous, public places in each ward. Before the election, the clerk shall publish a composite specimen ballot containing the names of all the nominees in a newspaper having general circulation in the city. On election day, when the polls are opened, the clerk shall post an instruction poster in each voting booth, and 3at least one instruction postersposter and 5at least one specimen ballotsballot in the voting room outside the guardrail enclosure.
 
SUMMARY
This bill removes the requirement that before a city election the clerk publish a composite specimen ballot containing the names of all the nominees in a newspaper having general circulation in the city. It also removes the requirement that the clerk post multiple copies of the instruction poster and specimen ballot in the voting room outside the guardrail enclosure and instead specifies that at least one of each of these documents be posted.