25 CFR §81.6
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To request a Secretarial election:
- (a)The tribe or petitioner must submit:
- (1)A duly adopted tribal resolution, tribal ordinance, other appropriate tribal document requesting the Secretary to call a Secretarial election, or, in the absence of an existing governing document or if authorized or required by the existing governing documents, a petition that has been verified by the Bureau as having the minimum number of required signatures of tribal members; and
- (2)The exact document or amended language to be voted on; and
- (b)The tribe must submit a list in an electronically sortable format with names, last known addresses, dates of birth, and voting district, if any, of all tribal members who: