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:
(1) Will be 18 years of age or older within 120 days of the date of the request; and
(2) Meet any other voting restrictions imposed by the tribe's governing document for voting in the Secretarial election.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
4
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 2001–2025 · leading case:
Rosales v. United States, 477 F. Supp. 2d 119 (D.D.C. 2007).
Rosales v. United States, 477 F. Supp. 2d 119 (D.D.C. 2007).
· cites it 6× “What is in dispute is whether Plaintiffs have standing to challenge the 1996 Secretarial election because they were not registered to vote as required by 25 C.F.R. § 81.6 (d). Defs.’ Cross-mot. Sum.”
Thomas v. United States, 141 F. Supp. 2d 1185 (W.D. Wis. 2001).
· cites it 3× “§ 476 (a) and 25 C.F.R. § 81.6 (d), as well as case law that had interpreted the pre 1988 version of the Act and he ignored LCO voter history under which tribal members who were 18 years old had been allowed to vote for 30 years.”
King v. Norton, 160 F. Supp. 2d 755 (E.D. Mich. 2001).
“25 C.F.R. § 81.6 (b). The BIA states that it does not maintain any tribal membership records and relies on the Tribe for that information.”
Channing v. Seneca-Cayuga Nation (N.D. Okla. 2025).
· cites it 2× “25 C.F.R. § 81.6 (a). The request must include the proposed amendment and a list of tribal members who will be at least 18 years old within 120 days of the request and who meet any other voting requirements a tribe has enacted for voting in a Secretarial election.”
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