House Journal: Page 908: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
5 Sec. . INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE ON INSTANT
6 RUNOFF VOTING. The legislative council is requested
7 to establish a legislative interim study committee for
8 the 2001 interim on instant runoff voting, a system of
9 voting by which a voter is allowed to rank the
10 candidates for an office on the ballot in the order of
11 preference. The interim committee shall study the
12 process by which, if no candidate receives a majority,
13 the second choices will be tallied, and if necessary,
14 the third choices tallied until one candidate receives
15 a majority of the votes cast. The committee shall
16 study the feasibility of such a process being used in
17 this state, what elections it should be used for,
18 whether such a voting system has increased voter
19 turnout in the localities where it is used, and any
20 other issues related to this type of voting."
21 2. By renumbering as necessary.
Amendment H-1337 lost.
Warnstadt of Woodbury offered the following amendment H-1290
filed by him and moved its adoption:
H-1290
1 Amend House File 304 as follows:
2 1. By striking page 17, line 32, through page 18,
3 line 19, and inserting the following:
4 "Any registered voter, under the circumstances
5 specified in section 53.1, may on any day, except
6 election day, and not more than seventy days prior to
7 the date of the election, apply in person for an
8 absentee ballot at the commissioner's office or at any
9 location designated by the commissioner, or make
10 written application to the commissioner for an
11 absentee ballot. However, for those elections in
12 which the commissioner directs the polls be opened at
13 noon pursuant to section 49.73, a voter may apply in
14 person for an absentee ballot at the commissioner's
15 office from eight a.m. until eleven a.m. on election
16 day. The state commissioner shall prescribe a form
17 for absentee ballot applications. However, if a
18 registered voter submits an application that includes
19 all of the information required in this section, the
20 prescribed form is not required. Absentee ballot
21 applications may include instructions to send the
22 application directly to the county commissioner of
23 elections. However, no absentee ballot application
24 shall be preaddressed or printed with instructions to
25 send the applications to anyone other than the
26 appropriate commissioner."
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League of Women Voters of Iowa
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