1. All nominations of any political party or group of petitioners, except as provided in section 49.30, shall be placed under the party name or title of such party or group, as designated by them in their certificates of nomination or petitions, or if none be designated, then under some suitable title, and the ballot shall contain no other names, except as provided in section 49.32.
2. The commissioner shall prepare a list of the election precincts of the county, by arranging the various townships and cities in the county in alphabetical order, and the wards or precincts in each city or township in numerical order under the name of such city or township. The commissioner shall then arrange the surnames of each political party's candidates for each office to which two or more persons are to be elected at large alphabetically for the respective offices for the first precinct on the list; thereafter, for each political party and for each succeeding precinct, the names appearing first for the respective offices in the last preceding precinct shall be placed last, so that the names that were second before the change shall be first after the change. The commissioner may also rotate the names of candidates of a political party in the reverse order of that provided in this subsection or alternate the rotation so that the candidates of different parties shall not be paired as they proceed through the rotation. The procedure for arrangement of names on ballots provided in this section shall likewise be substantially followed in elections in political subdivisions of less than a county.
3. The ballots for any city elections, school elections, special election, or any other election at which any office is to be filled on a nonpartisan basis and the statutes governing the office to be filled are silent as to the arrangement of names on the ballot, shall contain the names of all nominees or candidates arranged in alphabetical order by surname under the heading of the office to be filled. When a city election, school election, special election, or any other election at which an office is to be filled on a nonpartisan basis, is held in more than one precinct, the candidates' names shall be rotated on the ballot from precinct to precinct in the manner prescribed by subsection 2 unless there are no more candidates for an office than the number of persons to be elected to that office.
4. If electors in any precinct are entitled to vote for more than one nominee or candidate for a particular office, the heading for that office on the precinct ballot shall be immediately followed by a notation of the maximum number of nominees or candidates for that office for whom each elector may vote. Provision shall be made on the ballot to allow the elector to write in the name of any person for whom the elector desires to vote for any office or nomination on the ballot.
5. The name of a candidate printed on the ballot shall not include parentheses, quotation marks, or any personal or professional title.
6. For the purpose of ballot rotation the absentee ballot and special voters precinct may be considered a separate precinct.
[C97, § 1106; S13, § 1106, 2754; C24, 27, § 749, 4203; C31, 35, § 749, 4216-c8; C39, § 749, 4216.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 49.31, 277.8; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.31]
86 Acts, ch 1224, § 11, 12; 87 Acts, ch 221, § 13, 14; 89 Acts, ch 136, §36; 90 Acts, ch 1238, § 18; 91 Acts, ch 129, §12
Referred to in § 43.28, 49.53, 52.10
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