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House File 398

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Bill Introduced: H.J. 481
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 49.73, subsection 2, Code 2001, 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 seven o'clock a.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 at nine
  1 16 o'clock p.m. for state primary and general elections and other
  1 17 partisan elections, and for any other election held
  1 18 concurrently therewith, and at eight o'clock p.m. for all
  1 19 other elections.  In precincts having fewer than one hundred
  1 20 registered voters, the commissioner may direct that the
  1 21 polling places be closed at eight p.m., or when all registered
  1 22 voters in such precincts have voted, whichever occurs first.  
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24    This bill amends Code section 49.73 to allow a county
  1 25 commissioner of elections to close polling places early in
  1 26 precincts with fewer than 100 registered voters.  The
  1 27 commissioner may direct that the polls be closed in such
  1 28 precincts at eight p.m. or when all registered voters have
  1 29 voted, whichever occurs first.  
  1 30 LSB 1363YH 79
  1 31 av/pj/5

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