House Journal: Page 788: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
21 statewide voter registration file defined, maintained,
22 and administered at the state level that contains the
23 name and registration information of every legally
24 registered voter in the state and assigns a unique
25 identifier to each legally registered voter in the
26 state. The state voter registration system shall be
27 coordinated with other agency databases within the
28 state, including, but not limited to, the department
29 of transportation driver's license records, judicial
30 records of convicted felons and persons declared
31 incompetent to vote, and department of public health
32 records of deceased persons.
33 b. On or after the deadline established in
34 paragraph "a", a county shall not establish or
35 maintain a voter registration system separate from the
36 state voter registration system. Each county shall
37 provide to the state registrar the names, voter
38 registration information, and voting history of each
39 registered voter in the county in the form required by
40 the state registrar.
41 c. A state or local election official may obtain
42 immediate electronic access to the information
43 contained in the computerized voter registration file.
44 All voter registration information obtained by a local
45 election official shall be electronically entered into
46 the computerized voter registration file on an
47 expedited basis at the time the information is
48 provided to the local election official. The state
49 registrar shall provide such support as may be
50 required to enable local election officials to
Page 2
1 electronically enter the information into the
2 computerized voter registration file on an expedited
3 basis. The list generated from the computerized file
4 shall serve as the official voter registration list
5 for the conduct of all elections for federal office in
6 the state.
7 d. The state registrar shall prescribe by rule the
8 procedures for access to the state voter registration
9 file, security requirements, and access protocols for
10 adding, changing, or deleting information from the
11 state voter registration file.
12 Sec. 3. Section 48A.8, Code 2003, is amended to
13 read as follows:
14 48A.8 REGISTRATION BY MAIL.
15 1. An eligible elector may register to vote by
16 completing a mail registration form. The form may be
17 mailed or delivered by the registrant or the
18 registrant's designee to the commissioner in the
19 county where the person resides. A separate
© 2003 Cornell College and
League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
hjourn@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Fri Jul 11 13:20:00 CDT 2003
URL: /DOCS/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/00700/00788.html
jhf