Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 856 – Official returns
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 856
- Municipality: means a city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
- Official tally tape: means the first tape produced by an electronic tabulating machine that tallies the final vote totals at the conclusion of voting and that is attached to the zero tape produced by the machine prior to the start of voting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
- Voting district: means an area set off from another in the same municipality for voting purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
- Warden: means the presiding officer at a voting place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Copies of the election results must be open to the public as soon as the count is completed. The warden shall prepare the official return pursuant to section 711. The official return of each voting district is derived from the totals from the official tally tape, the totals from the hand-tallies of all red-lined or unread ballots and the tally sheets used to record all valid write-in votes. Once the clerk has made the attested copies of the precinct returns, if applicable, and the total municipality return and filed these attested copies with the Secretary of State, the return becomes the official return for that municipality. [PL 2001, c. 310, §67 (RPR).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW). PL 1995, c. 459, §109 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 310, §67 (RPR).