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Senate Study Bill 1067

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 49.73, subsection 2, Code 2003, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  The commissioner shall not shorten voting hours for any
  1  4 election if there is filed in the commissioner's office, at
  1  5 least twenty-five days before the election, a petition signed
  1  6 by at least fifty eligible electors of the school district or
  1  7 city, as the case may be, requesting that the polls be opened
  1  8 not later than seven o'clock a.m.  All polling places where
  1  9 the candidates of or any public question submitted by any one
  1 10 political subdivision are being voted upon shall be opened at
  1 11 the same hour, except that this requirement shall not apply to
  1 12 merged areas established under chapter 260C.  The hours at
  1 13 which the respective precinct polling places are to open shall
  1 14 not be changed after publication of the notice required by
  1 15 section 49.53.  The polling places shall be closed at nine
  1 16 o'clock eight p.m. for state primary and general elections and
  1 17 other partisan elections, and for any other election held
  1 18 concurrently therewith, and at eight o'clock p.m. for all
  1 19 other elections.  
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill changes the time for closing precinct polling
  1 22 places from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m. for all elections.  
  1 23 LSB 1840SC 80
  1 24 sc/cl/14
     
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