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Senate Amendment 3457

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 636, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 34, by inserting before line 15 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "No absentee ballot application shall be
  1  6 preaddressed or printed with instructions to send the
  1  7 ballot to anyone other than the voter."
  1  8    #2.  Page 34, by inserting before line 15 the
  1  9 following:
  1 10    "Sec. ___.  Section 53.8, subsection 1, Code 1997,
  1 11 is amended to read as follows:
  1 12    1.  Upon receipt of an application for an absentee
  1 13 ballot and immediately after the absentee ballots are
  1 14 printed, the commissioner shall mail an absentee
  1 15 ballot to the applicant within twenty-four hours,
  1 16 except as otherwise provided in subsection 3.  The
  1 17 ballot shall be mailed to the applicant at the address
  1 18 listed on the applicant's voter registration, unless
  1 19 the applicant indicates that the applicant is away
  1 20 from the county.  The absentee ballot shall be
  1 21 enclosed in an unsealed envelope bearing a serial
  1 22 number and affidavit.  The absentee ballot and
  1 23 unsealed envelope shall be enclosed in or with a
  1 24 carrier envelope which bears the same serial number as
  1 25 the unsealed envelope.  The absentee ballot, unsealed
  1 26 envelope, and carrier envelope shall be enclosed in a
  1 27 third envelope to be sent to the registered voter."
  1 28    #3.  Page 34, by inserting before line 15 the
  1 29 following:
  1 30    "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  53.9  PROHIBITED PERSONS.
  1 31    No person required to file reports under chapter
  1 32 56, and no person acting as an actual or implied agent
  1 33 for a person required to file reports under chapter
  1 34 56, shall receive absentee ballots on behalf of
  1 35 voters."
  1 36    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 37 
  1 38 
  1 39                               
  1 40 ALLEN BORLAUG 
  1 41 DICK L. DEARDEN 
  1 42 HF 636.208 77
  1 43 sc/jj/28
     

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