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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 1879XS 79
1 35 sc/cls/14
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