House Journal: Page 914: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
10 ballot election and shall submit it to the state
11 commissioner of elections at least seventy-one days
12 before the date of the election.
13 2. The plan may be amended by the county
14 commissioner any time before the sixty-fourth day
15 before the date of the election by notifying the state
16 commissioner of elections in writing of any changes.
17 3. Within five days after receiving the plan, and
18 as soon as possible after receiving any amendments,
19 the state commissioner of elections shall approve,
20 disapprove, or recommend changes to the plan or
21 amendments. The final plan shall be approved and
22 available to the public at least two days before the
23 deadline for candidates to file nomination papers in
24 the office of the city clerk.
25 4. When the written plan has been approved, the
26 county commissioner shall proceed to conduct the
27 election according to the approved plan.
28 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.6 PUBLICATION OF
29 NOTICE.
30 The county commissioner shall, not more than ten
31 days and not less than four days before the date that
32 ballots are to be mailed, publish notice that a mail
33 ballot election will be conducted. The notice shall
34 be published in a newspaper of general circulation in
35 each city for which the mail ballot election will be
36 conducted. The notice shall include all of the
37 following information:
38 1. The date ballots will be mailed.
39 2. The last day that a voter can request an
40 absentee ballot.
41 3. Voter registration deadlines.
42 4. Location or locations where mail ballots can be
43 deposited pursuant to section 49B.13.
44 5. Instructions for obtaining a replacement ballot
45 if a voter's ballot is destroyed, spoiled, lost, or
46 not received pursuant to section 49B.9.
47 The county commissioner is not required to publish
48 a sample ballot.
49 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.7 MAILING BALLOTS.
50 1. Official ballots for a mail ballot election
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1 shall be prepared and all other initial procedures for
2 elections shall be followed as otherwise provided by
3 law.
4 2. The county commissioner of elections shall mail
5 an official ballot to every registered voter of the
6 city conducting the election on a date not sooner than
7 the twentieth day before the date of the election and
8 not later than the tenth day before the date of the
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