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House Journal: Page 1890: Wednesday, April 24, 1996

 4   commissioner's office no later than the time the polls
 5   are closed on election day.  The commissioner shall
 6   provide a secure location or secure method for receipt
 7   of completed absentee ballots on a twenty-four-hour-a-
 8   day basis.  A ballot received in this manner is
 9   considered to have been delivered to the
10   commissioner's office."
11     5.  Page 33, by inserting after line 11 the
12   following:
13     "Sec. ___.  Section 53.38, Code 1995, is amended to
14   read as follows:
15     53.38  AFFIDAVIT CONSTITUTES REGISTRATION.
16     Whenever a ballot is requested pursuant to section
17   53.39 or 53.45 on behalf of a voter in the armed
18   forces of the United States, the affidavit upon the
19   ballot envelope of such voter or a completed federal
20   postcard registration and absentee ballot request, if
21   the voter is found to be an eligible elector of the
22   county to which the ballot is submitted, shall
23   constitute a sufficient registration under the
24   provisions of chapter 48A and the commissioner shall
25   place the voter's name on the registration record as a
26   registered voter, if it does not already appear
27   there."
28     6.  Page 33, by inserting after line 11 the
29   following:
30     "Sec. ___.  Section 53.44, unnumbered paragraph 1,
31   Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
32     The affidavit on the envelope used in connection
33   with voting by absentee ballot under this division by
34   members of the armed forces of the United States need
35   not be notarized or witnessed, but the affidavit on
36   the ballot envelope shall be completed and signed by
37   the voter.  The envelope shall also contain a notice,
38   in large type and bold print, informing the voter that
39   the ballot is not valid unless the affidavit is signed
40   by the voter."
41     7.  Page 33, by inserting after line 27 the
42   following:
43     "Sec. ___.  Section 56.6, subsection 1, paragraphs
44   c and d, Code Supplement 1995, are amended to read as
45   follows:
46     c.  A candidate's committee for a candidate for the
47   general assembly at a special election for which the
48   governor is required to give not less than forty days'
49   notice under section 69.14 shall file a report by the
50   fourteenth day prior to the special election which is

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 1   current through the nineteenth day prior to the
 2   special election.  A candidate's committee for a
 3   candidate for the general assembly at a special

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