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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2279
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO PETITION AND OPERATING HOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR A
  1  5    SATELLITE ABSENTEE VOTING STATION.
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 53.11, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
  1 10 amended to read as follows:
  1 11    1.  Satellite absentee voting stations may be established
  1 12 throughout the cities and county at the direction of the
  1 13 commissioner and shall be established upon receipt of a
  1 14 petition signed by not less than one hundred eligible electors
  1 15 requesting that a satellite absentee voting station be
  1 16 established at a location to be described on the petition.  A
  1 17 petition requesting establishment of a satellite absentee
  1 18 voting station shall also list the precincts for which the
  1 19 commissioner is to provide ballots at the satellite absentee
  1 20 voting station.  If the location described on the petition is
  1 21 in the unincorporated area of a county, the petition
  1 22 requesting establishment of a satellite absentee voting
  1 23 station shall be signed by not less than one hundred eligible
  1 24 electors.  If the location described on the petition is in a
  1 25 city, the number of eligible electors required to sign a
  1 26 petition requesting establishment of a satellite absentee
  1 27 voting station is as follows:
  1 28    a.  In a city with a population of less than ten thousand,
  1 29 one hundred eligible electors.
  1 30    b.  In a city with a population of ten thousand or more but
  1 31 less than fifty thousand, two hundred fifty eligible electors.
  1 32    c.  In a city with a population of fifty thousand or more
  1 33 but less than one hundred thousand, five hundred eligible
  1 34 electors.
  1 35    d.  In a city with a population of one hundred thousand or
  2  1 more, seven hundred fifty eligible electors.
  2  2    PARAGRAPH DIVIDED.  A satellite absentee voting station
  2  3 established by petition must be open at least one day for a
  2  4 minimum of six four hours.  A satellite absentee voting
  2  5 station established at the direction of the commissioner or by
  2  6 petition may remain open until five p.m. on the day before the
  2  7 election.  
  2  8 
  2  9 
  2 10                                                             
  2 11                               JEFFREY M. LAMBERTI
  2 12                               President of the Senate
  2 13 
  2 14 
  2 15                                                             
  2 16                               CHRISTOPHER C. RANTS
  2 17                               Speaker of the House
  2 18 
  2 19    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  2 20 is known as Senate File 2279, Eightieth General Assembly.
  2 21 
  2 22 
  2 23                                                             
  2 24                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  2 25                               Secretary of the Senate
  2 26 Approved                , 2004
  2 27 
  2 28 
  2 29                                
  2 30 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  2 31 Governor
     
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