Text: HSB00553 Text: HSB00555 Text: HSB00500 - HSB00599 Text: HSB Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 49.13, subsection 2, Code 2001, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 2.Each election board memberTo the extent necessary, 1 4 election boards shallbe a memberinclude members of one of 1 5 the two political parties whose candidates for president of 1 6 the United States or for governor, as the case may be, 1 7 received the largest and next largest number of votes in the 1 8 precinct at the last general election, except that persons not1 9members of either of these parties may be appointed to serve1 10for any election in which no candidates appear on the ballot1 11under the heading of either of these political parties. 1 12 Election boards may also include persons not members of either 1 13 of these parties. 1 14 Sec. 2. Section 49.15, Code 2001, is amended to read as 1 15 follows: 1 16 49.15 COMMISSIONER TO DRAW UP ELECTION BOARD PANEL. 1 17 Not less than twenty days before each primary election, the 1 18 commissioner shall draw up for each precinct an election board 1 19 panel from which members of the precinct election board shall 1 20 be appointed for each election held in the precinct during the 1 21 ensuing two years. Each panel shall include members of each 1 22 of the political parties referred to in section 49.13, whose 1 23 names may be designated by the county chairpersons of each of 1 24 these political parties not less than thirty days prior to 1 25 each primary election. The commissioner may place on the 1 26 election board panel names of persons known by the 1 27 commissioner to be members of these political parties, if the 1 28 respective county chairpersons fail to designate a sufficient 1 29 number of names, and may also add names of persons, whether or 1 30 not they are members of either of these political parties, who 1 31 have advised the commissioner they are willing to serve on the 1 32 election boardfor elections in which no candidates appear on1 33the ballot under the heading of either of these political1 34parties, or. The commissioner may also place on the election 1 35 board panel names of persons whom either the city council of a 2 1 city of three thousand five hundred or less population or a 2 2 school board has advised the commissioner at least thirty days 2 3 before each primary election are willing to serve without pay 2 4 at elections conducted for that school district or city, as 2 5 the case may be, during the tenure of the election board panel 2 6 on which these names are included. 2 7 Sec. 3. Section 51.2, Code 2001, is amended to read as 2 8 follows: 2 9 51.2 APPOINTMENT. 2 10 The members of the election counting board shall be 2 11 appointed by the commissioner from the election board panel 2 12 drawn up as provided by section 49.15. The requirements of 2 13 section 49.13, relative to political party affiliation of 2 14 members of the election boardappointed to serve for partisan2 15electionsshall apply to the membership of the election 2 16 counting board. 2 17 EXPLANATION 2 18 This bill allows the commissioner of elections to include 2 19 on election board panels, and thus on election boards, names 2 20 of persons who are not members of the two political parties 2 21 receiving the largest and next largest number of votes for 2 22 president or governor at the last general election. Precinct 2 23 election officials are chosen from election boards. 2 24 LSB 5312DP 79 2 25 sc/hk/91
Text: HSB00553 Text: HSB00555 Text: HSB00500 - HSB00599 Text: HSB Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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