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House Journal: Page 805: Thursday, March 19, 1998

H-8175

 1     Amend House File 2495 as follows:
 2     1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 7, the
 3   following:
 4     "Sec. ___.  Section 39.3, Code 1997, is amended by
 5   adding the following new subsection:
 6     NEW SUBSECTION.  8A.  "Mail ballot election" means
 7   an election conducted pursuant to chapter 49B."
 8     2.  Page 3, by inserting after line 6, the
 9   following:
10     "If the election is to be conducted as a mail
11   ballot election pursuant to chapter 49B, the
12   commissioner shall, not more than twenty days and not
13   less than four days before the date that ballots are
14   to be mailed, publish notice that a mail ballot
15   election will be conducted.  The commissioner is not
16   required to publish a sample mail ballot.  The notice
17   shall include all of the following information:
18     a.  The date ballots will be mailed.
19     b.  The last day that a voter can request an
20   absentee ballot.
21     c.  Voter registration deadlines.
22     d.  Location or locations where mail ballots can be
23   deposited pursuant to section 49B.14.
24     e.  Instructions for obtaining a replacement ballot
25   if a voter's ballot is destroyed, spoiled, lost, or
26   not received pursuant to section 49B.10."
27     3.  Page 3, line 12, by inserting after the figure
28   "49.81." the following:  "A person who has been sent a
29   mail ballot election ballot but for any reason has not
30   received it shall, in accordance with section 49B.10,
31   either be mailed another ballot or shall be permitted
32   to cast a ballot in person at the office of the county
33   commissioner."
34     4.  Page 3, by inserting after line 12 the
35   following:
36     "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  49B.1  MAIL BALLOT
37   ELECTIONS.
38     An election shall not be conducted under this
39   chapter unless all of the following apply:
40     1.  The use of mail ballots for the election is
41   authorized pursuant to section 49B.5 or section 49B.6.
42     2.  The state commissioner of elections approves a
43   written plan for conduct of the election, which shall
44   include a written timetable for the conduct of the
45   election, submitted by the county commissioner.
46     3.  The election is nonpartisan.
47     4.  The election is not held on the same date as
48   another election in which registered voters of that
49   political subdivision are eligible to cast ballots.
50     5.  The election is one at which only the

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