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1 1 Section 1. Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
1 2 2003, 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. The state commissioner shall prescribe a form for
1 10 absentee ballot applications. However, if a registered voter
1 11 submits an application that includes all of the information
1 12 required in this section, the prescribed form is not required.
1 13 The form prescribed by the commissioner shall be prepared in
1 14 triplicate with instructions printed on the form directing the
1 15 applicant to deliver the original to the county commissioner
1 16 and to retain the duplicate. If the application was supplied
1 17 to the applicant by someone other than the county commissioner
1 18 or the commissioner's designee, the triplicate shall be
1 19 retained by the individual or organization who supplied the
1 20 ballot application to the applicant. Absentee ballot
1 21 applications may include instructions to send the application
1 22 directly to the county commissioner of elections. However, no
1 23 absentee ballot application shall be preaddressed or printed
1 24 with instructions to send the applications to anyone other
1 25 than the appropriate commissioner.
1 26 EXPLANATION
1 27 This bill provides that the absentee ballot application
1 28 form prescribed by the state commissioner of elections be
1 29 prepared in triplicate and contain instructions directing the
1 30 applicant to deliver the original to the county commissioner
1 31 of elections and to retain the duplicate. The bill provides
1 32 that if the application was supplied to the applicant by
1 33 someone other than the county commissioner or the
1 34 commissioner's designee, the triplicate shall be retained by
1 35 the individual or organization who supplied the ballot
2 1 application to the applicant.
2 2 LSB 1415YH 80
2 3 sc/sh/8
Text: HF00116 Text: HF00118 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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