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HF3587 • 2026

Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Gordon, Altendorf, Knudsen, Van Binsbergen
Last action
2026-03-26
Official status
Committee report, to adopt as amended
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

What This Bill Does

  • Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-26 House

    Committee report, to adopt as amended

  2. 2026-03-12 House

    Author added Van Binsbergen

  3. 2026-03-05 House

    Author added Knudsen

  4. 2026-02-23 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Elections Finance and Government Operations

Official Summary Text

Election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling place required to handle only one voted ballot at a time.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A bill for an act

relating to elections; requiring election judges who assist a voter outside of a polling

place to handle only one voted ballot at a time; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025

Supplement, section 204C.15, subdivision 2.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 204C.15, subdivision 2, is amended

to read:

Subd. 2.

Outside the polling place.

An individual who is unable to enter a polling place

where paper ballots or an electronic voting system are used may register or update the voter's

registration and vote without leaving a motor vehicle. Two election judges who are members

of different major political parties must assist the voter to register or to update a registration,

as applicable, and to complete a voter's certificate and must provide the necessary ballots.

The voter may request additional assistance in marking ballots as provided in subdivision

1.
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An election judge providing assistance under this subdivision may only handle one voted

ballot at a time.
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