An Act To Facilitate Voting by Participants in the Address Confidentiality Program
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1115
Committee Amendment CA_A_H625 (House)
Amends: 21-A MRSA §172, 21-A MRSA §191, 21-A MRSA §753-B

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to 
Act 
To 
Facilitate 
Voting 
by 
Confidentiality Program" 
H.P. 768, L.D. 1115, Bill, "An 
Participants 
in 
the 
Address 
Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the 
enacting clause the following: 
'Mandate preamble. 
This measure requires one or more local 
units of government to expand or modify activities so as to 
necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does 
not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. 
Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 
2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined 
it necessary to enact this measure.' 
Further 
amend the bill by inserting after the enacting 
clause and before section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 1. 21-A MRS A §1, sub-§21, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, 
§6, is amended to read: 
21. 
Incoming voting list. 
"Incoming voting list" means the 
list of all of the voters in a municipality wR~eR ~ 
is used by 
election officials at a voting place to record which voters have 
been issued a ballot at an election. 
The list must include the 
following information for each voter and may not include any 
other information: 
name: residence address; enrollment status: 
electoral district: 
voter status. 
active or 
inactive; 
voter 
record 
number: 
designations 
regarding challenged ballots 
and 
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to H.P. 768, L.D. 1115 
absentee 
ballots: 
and 
any 
special 
designations 
indicating 
uniformed service voters, overseas voters or township voters. The 
portion 
of 
the 
incoming 
voting 
list 
relating 
to 
Address 
Confidentiality Program participants must be kept under seal and 
excluded from public inspection.' 
Further amend the bill by striking out all of sections 3 and 
5. 
Further amend the bill by striking out all of section 6 and 
inserting in its place the following: 
'Sec. 6. 21-A MRSA §172, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 407, §13, 
is amended to read: 
§172. Voter registration file 
The registrar shall prepare and keep a voter registration 
file containing the voter registration documents for each voter 
ea--k.-he--.;r.e.t-i~-lis~ in the central voter registration system, 
arranged alphabetically by the last name of each voter. except 
that any voter certified by the Secretary of State as a program 
participant in the Address Confidentiality Program pursuant to 
Title 5. 
section 
90-B must 
be listed on voter registration 
documents only by the voter code assigned to that voter under the 
program and these documents must be placed at the end of the 
alphabetized voter file. 
The file must contain an original, 
signed voter registration application for each voter, with all 
associated applications containing changes of name, address or 
enrollment and any documentation concerning these applications or 
the qualifications for these voters. 
Information in the file 
pertaining to any voter certified by the Secretary of State as a 
program participant in the Address Confidentiality Program must 
be kept under seal and excluded from public inspection. 
When 
~Be 
aaHIe-~--a-- .... -e~e-£--iv--relReveE1 a voter's registration is cancelled 
from 
the 
ve~ia~--lis~ central voter registration system, 
the 
registrar shall indicate on the voter's registration documents 
the date that the voter's aaHIe registration was 
relReVeQ-fFelR-~Be 
lis~ cancelled and retain the documents for 5 years, either in 
the same file, or in a separate file. 
The registrar must retain 
the voter registration documents for each rejected voter in a 
separate file for the time period specified in section 23. 
Sec. 7. 21-A MRSA §191, sub-§4 is enacted to read: 
4. 
Address confidentiality component. 
For the purposes of 
generating 
an 
incoming 
voting 
list, 
the 
central 
voter 
registration system must be capable of being sorted so that the 
Address 
Confidentiality Program voter 
codes 
and 
the 
address 
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assigned each voter by the program appear at the end of the 
alphabetized list and are printed on a separate page of the list. 
Sec. 8. 21-A MRSA §753-B, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2003, c. 
407, §§24 and 25, is further amended to read: 
6. 
Clerk to keep list of absentee voters. 
The clerk shall 
*eep create 
and maintain. 
in the central voter registration 
system. an alphabetical list, by district, of the persons who 
requested 
or 
were 
furnished 
absentee ballots, 
including the 
persons who voted in the presence of the clerk under subsection 8 
and the persons whose ballots were issued to a 3rd person under 
subsection 1. 
The clerk shall maintain a 
copy of the lists 
required under this subsection for a period of 2 years as a 
public record. 
A. 
The list of absentee voters must include each voter I s 
name, 
residence 
address, 
voting 
district 
and 
party 
affiliation; the date and manner by which the ballot was 
requested, issued and received; a notation of whether the 
application and the ballot were accepted or rejected; and a 
place for the registrar to certify the voter registration 
status of the absentee voters. 
The clerk must also indicate 
on the list when the absentee voter is a uniformed service 
voter 
9F.L overseas voter or township voter. 
By the time 
that all absentee ballots have been processed on election 
day. the clerk must update the central voter registration 
system or annotate the printed list of absentee voters to 
reflect all ballots that were received by the close of the 
polls on election day. including a notation of whether the 
ballots were accepted or rejected and the reasons for such 
rejections. 
This list. 
reflecting all 
absentee 
ballots 
received by the close of the polls. must be made available 
for public inspection. 
Any absentee voter certified as a 
participant in the Address Confidentiality Program pursuant 
to Title 5. section 90-B must be listed by the voter code 
assigned to that individual under the program instead of by 
the voter's name and reflect the Address Confidentiality 
Program address assigned to the voter. 
The list of absentee 
voters must be sorted so that the 
program participants 
appear at the end of the list and must be printed on a 
separate page of the list. 
The portion of the list of 
absentee voters relating to Address Confidentiality Program 
participants must 
be 
kept 
under seal 
and excluded 
from 
public inspection. 
B. 
The clerk shall submit this list of absentee voters to 
the 
and, 
The 
registrar for certification of the registration status 
when applicable, the enrollment status of the voters. 
registrar shall certify the list either before or as 
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soon as possible after the ballot is issued to the voter. 
The certifications must be completed before the absentee 
ballots may be processed and cast on election day. 
C. 
The clerk shall also keep a list of the 3rd persons 
designated 
in applications 
or written 
requests 
to 
whom 
absentee ballots are sent or delivered under subsection 1 
and of the number of absentee ballots sent or delivered to 
them. 
This list of 3rd person ballot carriers must include 
telephone numbers for contacting the 3rd persons. 
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E. 
Within 10 business days after each election, the clerk 
shall 
update 
the 
central 
voter 
registration 
system 
to 
include the changes required by paragraph A. 
The clerk also 
must update the central voter registration system to reflect 
any absentee ballots received after the polls have closed on 
election day by changing the rejection reason. 
When all 
updates have been made in the central voter registration 
system, the clerk shall certify this to the Secretary of 
State and make a final list of absentee ballots available 
for public inspection.' 
Further amend the bill by relettering 
nonconsecutive 
Part 
letter 
or 
section 
consecutively. 
or renumbering any 
number 
to 
read 
SUMMARY 
This 
amendment 
clarifies 
that 
the 
addresses 
of 
voters 
certified as participants in the Address Confidentiality Program 
contained in files or lists pertaining to registered voters are 
kept under seal 
and protected from public inspection. 
This 
amendment includes a mandate preamble. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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Revised: 05/31105 ~aC!-
LD 1115 
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An Act To Facilitate Voting by Participants in the Address Confidentiality Program 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment A" 
Committee: Judiciary 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Exempted State Mandate 
State Mandate 
New or Expanded Activity 
Requiring that municipalities provide certain voting-related services to those 
individuals participating in the Address Confidentiality Program represents a state 
mandate. The costs are mostly clerical, will depend on the number of program 
participants and are not expected to be significant. Pursuant to the mandate 
preamble, an affirmative vote of two thirds of the members elected to each House 
exempts the State from the requirement to pay 90% of the costs of these 
requirements. 
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Unit Affected 
Municipality 
Costs 
Minor