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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 636 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 34, by inserting before line 8 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. ___. Section 53.23, subsection 3, Code 1997, 1 5 is amended to read as follows: 1 6 3. The commissioner shall set the convening time 1 7 for the board, allowing a reasonable amount of time to 1 8 complete counting all absentee ballots by ten p.m. on 1 9 election day. The commissioner may direct the board 1 10 to meet on the dayprior tobefore the election solely 1 11 for the purpose of reviewing the absentee voters' 1 12 affidavits appearing on the sealed ballot envelopes 1 13if. If, in the commissioner's judgment this procedure 1 14 is necessary due to the number of absentee ballots 1 15 received, the members of the board may open the sealed 1 16 ballot envelopes and remove the secrecy envelope 1 17 containing the ballot, but under no circumstances 1 18 shall asealed ballotsecrecy envelope be opened 1 19 before the board convenes on election day. If the 1 20 ballot envelopes are opened before election day, two 1 21 observers appointed by each of the two political 1 22 parties referred to in section 49.13, subsection 2, 1 23 shall witness the proceedings. 1 24 If the board finds any ballot not enclosed in a 1 25 secrecy envelope, the two special precinct election 1 26 officials, one from each of the two political parties 1 27 referred to in section 49.13, subsection 2, shall 1 28 place the ballot in a secrecy envelope and seal the 1 29 envelope. No one shall examine the ballot. Each of 1 30 the special precinct election officials shall sign the 1 31 secrecy envelope." 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35 CHIODO of Polk 1 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 JACOBS of Polk 1 40 HF 636.205 77 1 41 sc/jj/28
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