Source: http://mainelegislature.org/statutes/21-A/title21-Asec601.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 09:03:42+00:00

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1. Arrangement. The ballots must be arranged in a manner that is as consistent and uniform as possible throughout the State.
2. Content. The ballot must contain the items listed in this section.
J. For elections determined by ranked-choice voting, the ballot must be simple and easy to understand and allow a voter to rank candidates for an office in order of preference. A voter may include no more than one write-in candidate among that voter's ranked choices for each office.
The blocked paragraph of paragraph J, as created by Public Law 2017, chapter 316, section 3, was vetoed pursuant to a people's veto on June 12, 2018 in accordance with the Maine Constitution Article IV, Part Third, Section 17.
3. Order of offices. The order of offices on the ballot is as follows: President, United States Senator, Governor, Representative to Congress, State Senator and Representative to the Legislature, and the county offices in the following order: judge of probate, register of probate, county treasurer, register of deeds, sheriff, district attorney and county commissioner.
4. Distinctively colored. When possible, election ballots must be printed on white paper. Each political party participating in a primary election must have a separate ballot. The paper for each party's primary ballot must be printed or distinguished with a different color marking as determined by the Secretary of State. For municipalities that include more than one single member district of the State Senate or the House of Representatives, or parts of more than one single member district, the Secretary of State may prepare ballots with one or more distinctive color markings for each single member district or part of a single member district within the municipality.
5. Size. The Secretary of State shall determine the size of the ballots. With the permission of the Secretary of State, the clerk may make a reasonable number of enlarged ballots in order to assist voters who are visually impaired. The clerk may also make a reasonable number of enlarged instruction posters and enlarged sample ballots at the clerk's own discretion. A voter who is visually impaired may request of the clerk an enlarged ballot or an enlarged sample ballot to assist the voter. The clerk shall record and report to the Secretary of State the number of enlarged ballots made for visually impaired voters.
6. Contents concealed. The ballots may be folded uniformly so that the interior contents are concealed, except in municipalities using electronic tabulating systems.
1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW). 1993, c. 473, §§11-13 (AMD). 1993, c. 473, §46 (AFF). 1997, c. 436, §§67,68 (AMD). 1999, c. 426, §17 (AMD). 2001, c. 310, §29 (AMD). 2003, c. 584, §§5,6 (AMD). 2007, c. 455, §§18, 19 (AMD). 2009, c. 253, §§23, 24 (AMD). 2013, c. 131, §§15, 16 (AMD). IB 2015, c. 3, §3 (AMD). 2017, c. 316, §3 (AMD). 2017, c. 402, Pt. C, §40 (AMD). 2017, c. 402, Pt. F, §1 (AFF).

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