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A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING <br />AN ABSENTEE BALLOT BOARD FOR THE 2002 GENERAL ELECTION <br />TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 5,2002 <br />Orono; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Hall serves as an absentee ballot center for the residents of <br />WHEREAS, State Statute Section 203B. 13, Subd 1 provides that an Absentee Ballot <br />Board may be established by the City Council to facilitate the absentee voting process for an <br />upcoming election. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orono City Council hereby <br />establishes an Absentee Ballot Board to do any of the following: <br />A. <br />A. <br />Absentee Ballot Board members are authorized to receive, examine, and validate <br />absentee ballots. This process of examining the return envelopes and marking them <br />“accepted” or “rejected” may begin at any time during the 30 days before the <br />election. <br />If an envelope has been rejected at least 5 days before the election, the ballots in the <br />envelope must be considered spoiled ballots and the official in charge of the <br />Absentee Ballot Board shall provide the voter with a replacement absentee ballot and <br />return envelope in place of the spoiled ballot. <br />FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED by the Orono City Council that: <br />A Board of at least two election judges of different political parties shall be appointed <br />by the City Clerk. <br />B. Absentee Ballot Board members shall be compensated at the same rate as an election <br />judge for their services. <br />Adopted by the City Council of the City ot Orono, Minnesota, at a regular meeting <br />held October 14,2002. <br />ATTEST: <br />Linda S. Vee, City Clerk Barbara A. Peterson, Ma>'or <br />Page 1 of 1