House Journal: Page 608: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
3 following:
4 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 39.2A MAIL BALLOT
5 ELECTIONS.
6 All mail ballot elections shall be conducted
7 pursuant to chapter 49B."
8 2. Page 18, by inserting after line 31, the
9 following:
10 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.1 MAIL BALLOT
11 ELECTIONS - PILOT PROJECT.
12 1. The state commissioner of elections shall
13 implement a pilot project applying the provisions of
14 this chapter to eligible cities in one county in the
15 state. The county selected for the pilot project
16 shall be a county with a population of more than
17 eighty-five thousand but less than ninety thousand and
18 which has five or more cities with a population of two
19 hundred or less.
20 2. A mail ballot election may be conducted in a
21 city with a population of two hundred or less that is
22 located in the pilot project county as provided in
23 this chapter.
24 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.2 DEFINITIONS.
25 As used in this chapter, unless the context
26 otherwise requires:
27 1. "Election day" is the date established by law
28 on which a particular election would be held if that
29 election were being conducted by means other than a
30 mail ballot election.
31 2. "Return verification envelope" means an
32 envelope that contains a secrecy envelope and that is
33 designed to allow election officials, upon examination
34 of the outside of the envelope, to determine that the
35 ballot is being submitted by someone who is in fact a
36 registered voter and who has not already voted.
37 3. "Secrecy envelope" means an envelope that is
38 used to contain the elector's ballot and that is
39 designed to conceal the voter's vote and to prevent
40 the voter's ballot from being distinguished from the
41 ballots of other voters.
42 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.3 MAIL BALLOT
43 ELECTION PROCEDURE.
44 The state commissioner of elections shall prescribe
45 uniform procedures and forms to be used in the conduct
46 of mail ballot elections.
47 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 49B.4 INITIATION BY
48 GOVERNING BODY.
49 1. If the city council of a city with a population
50 of two hundred or less determines that it is
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