House Journal: Page 795: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
14 election official)
15 Sec. 21. Section 50.20, Code 2003, is amended to
16 read as follows:
17 50.20 NOTICE OF NUMBER OF SPECIAL PROVISIONAL
18 BALLOTS.
19 The commissioner shall compile a list of the number
20 of special provisional ballots cast under section
21 49.81 in each precinct. The list shall be made
22 available to the public as soon as possible, but in no
23 case later than nine o'clock a.m. on the second day
24 following the election. Any elector may examine the
25 list during normal office hours, and may also examine
26 the affidavit envelopes bearing the ballots of
27 challenged electors until the reconvening of the
28 special precinct board as required by this chapter.
29 Only those persons so permitted by section 53.23,
30 subsection 4, shall have access to the affidavits
31 while that board is in session. Any elector may
32 present written statements or documents, supporting or
33 opposing the counting of any special ballot, at the
34 commissioner's office until the reconvening of the
35 special precinct board.
36 Sec. 22. Section 50.21, unnumbered paragraph 2,
37 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
38 If no special provisional ballots were cast in the
39 county pursuant to section 49.81 at any election, the
40 special precinct election board need not be so
41 reconvened. If the number of special provisional
42 ballots so cast at any election is not sufficient to
43 require reconvening of the entire election board of
44 the special precinct, the commissioner may reconvene
45 only the number of members required. If the number of
46 special provisional ballots cast at any election
47 exceeds the number of absentee ballots cast, the size
48 of the special precinct election board may be
49 increased at the commissioner's discretion. The
50 commissioner shall observe the requirements of
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1 sections 49.12 and 49.13 in making adjustments to the
2 size of the special precinct election board.
3 Sec. 23. Section 52.1, subsection 2, paragraph h,
4 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
5 h. "Voting machine" means a mechanical or an
6 electronic device, meeting the requirements of section
7 52.7, designated for use in casting, registering,
8 recording, and counting votes at an election.
9 Sec. 24. Section 52.2, Code 2003, is amended to
10 read as follows:
11 52.2 PURCHASE.
12 The board of supervisors of any county may, by a
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