House Journal: Page 803: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Unfinished Business Calendar
The House resumed consideration of House File 614, a bill for an
act relating to elections and voter registration by implementing
requirements of federal law, modifying closing hours of the polls and
voter identification requirements, transferring duties relating to
conduct of elections and voter registration from the office of secretary
of state to the Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board, and
making changes relating to absentee voting procedures, including
request and delivery of absentee ballot applications, delivery of
absentee ballots to the voter, and delivery of completed absentee
ballots to the county commissioner of elections, and including
effective date provisions, previously deferred.
Jacobs of Polk offered the following amendment H-1121 filed by
her and moved its adoption:
H-1121
1 Amend House File 614 as follows:
2 1. Page 8, line 31, by inserting after the word
3 "or" the following: "described in section 53.16,
4 subsection 3, or".
5 2. Page 16, by striking lines 8 through 22, and
6 inserting the following:
7 "53.16 SUBSCRIBING TO AFFIDAVIT - IDENTIFICATION
8 REQUIRED OF CERTAIN VOTERS.
9 1. After marking the ballot, the voter shall make
10 and subscribe to the affidavit on the reverse side of
11 the envelope, and fold the ballot or ballots,
12 separately, so as to conceal the markings on them, and
13 deposit them in the envelope, and securely seal the
14 envelope.
15 2. An eligible elector who registers by mail and
16 who has not previously voted in an election for
17 federal office in the county of registration and who
18 is voting an absentee ballot by mail, at the
19 commissioner's office, or at a satellite voting
20 station, shall be required to provide a form of
21 identification described in section 49.77, subsection
22 3, unless the registrant provided on the registration
23 form the registrant's Iowa driver's license number or
24 the last four numerals of the registrant's social
25 security number and the driver's license or partial
26 social security number matches an existing state or
27 federal identification record with the same social
28 security number or Iowa driver's license number and
29 name, including first name and any family forename or
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