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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1 2 2001, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 Any registered voter, under the circumstances specified in 1 4 section 53.1, may on any day, except election day, and not 1 5 more than seventy days prior to the date of the election, 1 6 apply in person for an absentee ballot at the commissioner's 1 7 office or at any location designated by the commissioner, or 1 8 make written application to the commissioner for an absentee 1 9 ballot. However, for those elections in which the 1 10 commissioner directs the polls be opened at noon pursuant to 1 11 section 49.73, a voter may apply in person for an absentee 1 12 ballot at the commissioner's office from eight a.m. until 1 13 eleven a.m. on election day. The state commissioner shall 1 14 prescribe a form for absentee ballot applications. However, 1 15 if a registered voter submits an application that includes all 1 16 of the information required in this section, the prescribed 1 17 form is not required. Absentee ballot applications may 1 18 include instructions to send the application directly to the 1 19 county commissioner of elections. However, no absentee ballot 1 20 application shall be preaddressed or printed with instructions 1 21 to send the applications to anyone other than the appropriate 1 22 commissioner. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This bill allows a voter to vote absentee at the 1 25 commissioner's office from eight a.m. until eleven a.m. on 1 26 election day if the election is one for which the commissioner 1 27 has directed that the polls not be opened until noon. The 1 28 county commissioner of elections may, by law, direct that the 1 29 polls be opened at noon for any school district election, city 1 30 elections in cities of 3,500 or less population, for cities 1 31 above 3,500 population if there is no contested election or 1 32 public measure on the ballot, and any benefited district 1 33 election. 1 34 LSB 1879YH 79 1 35 sc/cls/14
Text: HF00208 Text: HF00210 Text: HF00200 - HF00299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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