House Journal: Page 796: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
13 majority vote, authorize, purchase, and order the use
14 of either voting machines or an electronic voting
15 system in any one or more voting precincts within said
16 the county until otherwise ordered by said the board
17 of supervisors. Voting machines and an electronic
18 voting system may be used concurrently at different
19 precincts within any county, but not at the same
20 precinct.
21 The state commissioner may provide voting machines
22 or electronic voting systems to a county to replace
23 lever voting machines in use in the county in order to
24 comply with Pub. L. No. 107-252, the Help America
25 Vote Act of 2002.
26 Sec. 25. Section 52.9, unnumbered paragraph 4,
27 Code 2003, is amended by striking the paragraph.
28 Sec. 26. Section 52.10, Code 2003, is amended to
29 read as follows:
30 52.10 BALLOTS - FORM.
31 All ballots shall be printed in black ink on clear,
32 white material, of such size as will fit the ballot
33 frame, and presented in as plain, clear type as the
34 space will reasonably permit. The party name for each
35 political party represented on the machine shall be
36 prefixed to the list of candidates of such party. The
37 order of the list of candidates of the several parties
38 or organizations shall be arranged as provided in
39 sections 49.30 to 49.42A, except that the lists may be
40 arranged in horizontal rows or vertical columns to
41 meet the physical requirements of the voting machine
42 used. The offices, candidates, judges, and public
43 measures to be voted upon, using the voting machine,
44 shall be arranged as required by chapters 43 and 49.
45 Sec. 27. Section 52.12, Code 2003, is amended to
46 read as follows:
47 52.12 EXCEPTION - STRAIGHT PARTY VOTING.
48 Voting machines shall have a single lever or switch
49 voting target which casts a vote for each candidate of
50 a political party or nonparty political organization
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1 which has nominated candidates for more than one
2 partisan office on the ballot. Straight party voting
3 shall be provided for all general elections.
4 Sec. 28. Section 52.16, Code 2003, is amended to
5 read as follows:
6 52.16 DUTIES OF ELECTION OFFICERS -- INDEPENDENT
7 BALLOTS.
8 The election board of each precinct in which votes
9 are to be cast by machine shall meet at the precinct
10 polling place, at least one hour before the time set
11 for the opening of the polls at each election, and
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