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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 342 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 7, the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. . Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, 1 5 Code 2001, is amended to read as follows: 1 6 Any registered voter, under the circumstances 1 7 specified in section 53.1, may on any day, except 1 8 election day, and not more than seventy days prior to 1 9 the date of the election, apply in person for an 1 10 absentee ballot at the commissioner's office or at any 1 11 location designated by the commissioner, or make 1 12 written or facsimile application to the commissioner 1 13 for an absentee ballot. The state commissioner shall 1 14 prescribe a form for absentee ballot applications. 1 15 However, if a registered voter submits an application 1 16 that includes all of the information required in this 1 17 section, the prescribed form is not required. 1 18 Absentee ballot applications may include instructions 1 19 to send the application directly to the county 1 20 commissioner of elections. However, no absentee 1 21 ballot application shall be preaddressed or printed 1 22 with instructions to send the applications to anyone 1 23 other than the appropriate commissioner. 1 24 Sec. . Section 53.21, unnumbered paragraph 1, 1 25 Code 2001, is amended to read as follows: 1 26 A voter who has requested an absentee ballot may 1 27 obtain a replacement ballot if the voter declares that 1 28 the original ballot was lost or did not arrive. The 1 29 commissioner upon receipt of awritten orwritten, 1 30 oral, or facsimile request for a replacement ballot 1 31 shall provide a duplicate ballot. The same serial 1 32 number that was assigned to the records of the 1 33 original absentee ballot request shall be used on the 1 34 envelopes and records of the replacement ballot. 1 35 Sec. . Section 53.22, subsection 2, Code 2001, 1 36 is amended to read as follows: 1 37 2. Any registered voter who becomes a patient or 1 38 resident of a hospital or health care facility in the 1 39 county where the voter is registered to vote within 1 40 three days prior to the date of any election or on 1 41 election day may request an absentee ballot during 1 42 that period or on election day. As an alternative to 1 43 the application procedure prescribed by section 53.2, 1 44 the registered voter may make the request directly to 1 45 the officers who are delivering and returning absentee 1 46 ballots under this section. Alternatively, the 1 47 request may be made by telephone or fascimile to the 1 48 office of the commissioner not later than four hours 1 49 before the close of the polls. If the requester is 1 50 found to be a registered voter of that county, these 2 1 officers shall deliver the appropriate absentee ballot 2 2 to the registered voter in the manner prescribed by 2 3 this section. 2 4 Sec. . Section 53.22, subsection 5, unnumbered 2 5 paragraph 1, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows: 2 6 If the registered voter becomes a patient or 2 7 resident of a hospital or health care facility outside 2 8 the county where the voter is registered to vote 2 9 within three days before the date of any election or 2 10 on election day, the voter may designate a person to 2 11 deliver and return the absentee ballot. The designee 2 12 may be any person the voter chooses except that no 2 13 candidate for any office to be voted upon for the 2 14 election for which the ballot is requested may deliver 2 15 a ballot under this subsection. The request for an 2 16 absentee ballot may be made by telephone or facsimile 2 17 to the office of the commissioner not later than four 2 18 hours before the close of the polls. If the requester 2 19 is found to be a registered voter of that county, the 2 20 ballot shall be delivered by mail or by the person 2 21 designated by the voter. An application form shall be 2 22 included with the absentee ballot and shall be signed 2 23 by the voter and returned with the ballot." 2 24 #2. Title page, line 1, by inserting after the 2 25 word "Act" the following: "relating to the conduct of 2 26 elections by authorizing absentee ballot requests by 2 27 facsimile and by". 2 28 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 2 29 2 30 2 31 2 32 JOE BOLKCOM 2 33 SF 342.702 79 2 34 sc/cls
Text: S03254 Text: S03256 Text: S03200 - S03299 Text: S Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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