Bill Text: MO HB2220 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Revises the oath that election judges take prior to being commissioned or beginning duties by requiring them to swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of Missouri
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-26 - Executive Session Held (S) - VOTED DO PASS [HB2220 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB2220-Engrossed.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DUGGER (Sponsor), WELLS, DIEHL AND KELLY (Co-sponsors).
5167L.01P D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.091, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the oath of an election judge.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 115.091, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.091, to read as follows:
115.091. On commissioning or before entering upon his duties, each election judge shall take and subscribe the following oath:
I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of this state, that I will impartially discharge the duties of judge according to law[,] to the best of my ability, and that I will not disclose how any voter has voted unless I am required to do so as a witness in a proper judicial proceeding. I also affirm that I will not allow any person to vote who is not entitled to vote and that I will make no statement nor give any information of any kind tending in any way to show the state of the count prior to the close of the polls on election day.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this ..........day of ........, 20...
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Judge of Election
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Election Authority (Judge of Election)
witnessing oath
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