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Senate Amendment 3133

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 446 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 53.11, Code 1999, is amended
  1  5 to read as follows:
  1  6    53.11  PERSONAL DELIVERY OF ABSENTEE BALLOT –
  1  7 SATELLITE ABSENTEE VOTING STATIONS.
  1  8    1.  The commissioner shall deliver an absentee
  1  9 ballot to any registered voter applying in person at
  1 10 the commissioner's office, or at any location
  1 11 designated by the commissioner, not more than forty
  1 12 days before the date of the general election or the
  1 13 primary election, and for all other elections, as soon
  1 14 as the ballot is available.  The registered voter
  1 15 shall immediately mark the ballot, enclose and seal it
  1 16 in a ballot envelope, subscribe to the affidavit on
  1 17 the reverse side of the envelope, and return the
  1 18 absentee ballot to the commissioner.  The commissioner
  1 19 shall record the numbers appearing on the application
  1 20 and ballot envelope along with the name of the
  1 21 registered voter.
  1 22    2.  Satellite absentee voting stations shall be
  1 23 established throughout the cities and county at the
  1 24 direction of the commissioner or upon receipt of a
  1 25 petition signed by not less than one hundred eligible
  1 26 electors requesting that a satellite absentee voting
  1 27 station be established at a location to be described
  1 28 on the petition.  A satellite absentee voting station
  1 29 established by petition must be open at least one day
  1 30 for a minimum of six hours.  A petition requesting
  1 31 establishment of a satellite absentee voting station
  1 32 may only be filed for the primary and general
  1 33 elections and for any special election held to fill a
  1 34 vacancy in a partisan office.  A satellite absentee
  1 35 voting station established at the direction of the
  1 36 commissioner or by petition may remain open until five
  1 37 p.m. on the day before the election.
  1 38    3.  A petition requesting a satellite absentee
  1 39 voting station must be filed by the following
  1 40 deadlines:
  1 41    1 a.  For a primary or general election, no later
  1 42 than five p.m. on the forty-seventh day before the
  1 43 election.
  1 44    2.  For the regular city election, no later than
  1 45 five p.m. on the thirtieth day before the election.
  1 46    3.  For the regular school election, no later than
  1 47 five p.m. on the thirtieth day before the election.
  1 48    4 b.  For a special election to fill a vacancy in a
  1 49 partisan office, no later than thirty-two days before
  1 50 the special election.
  2  1    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  2  2 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment." 
  2  3 
  2  4 
  2  5                               
  2  6 DICK L. DEARDEN 
  2  7 SF 446.501 78
  2  8 sc/jw
     

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