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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 49.73, subsection 2, Code 1997, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. The commissioner shall not shorten voting hours for any 1 4 election if there is filed in the commissioner's office, at 1 5 least twenty-five days before the election, a petition signed 1 6 by at least fifty eligible electors of the school district or 1 7 city, as the case may be, requesting that the polls be opened 1 8 not later than seveno'clocka.m. All polling places where 1 9 the candidates of or any public question submitted by any one 1 10 political subdivision are being voted upon shall be opened at 1 11 the same hour, except that this requirement shall not apply to 1 12 merged areas established under chapter 260C. The hours at 1 13 which the respective precinct polling places are to open shall 1 14 not be changed after publication of the notice required by 1 15 section 49.53. The polling places shall be closed atnine1 16o'clockeight p.m. forstate primary and general elections and1 17other partisan elections, and for any other election held1 18concurrently therewith, and at eight o'clock p.m. forall 1 19otherelections. 1 20 EXPLANATION 1 21 This bill changes from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m. the hour at which 1 22 precinct polling places are to close for partisan elections 1 23 and any election held concurrently with a partisan election. 1 24 LSB 1479HH 77 1 25 sc/sc/14
Text: HF00036 Text: HF00038 Text: HF00000 - HF00099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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