1. The senior administrator of data processing services in the department of general services is designated the state registrar of voters, and shall regulate the preparation, preservation, and maintenance of voter registration records, the preparation of precinct election registers for all elections administered by the commissioner of any county, and the preparation of other data on voter registration and participation in elections which is requested and purchased at actual cost of preparation and production by a political party or any resident of this state. The registrar shall maintain a log, which is a public record, showing all lists and reports which have been requested or generated or which are capable of being generated by existing programs of the data processing services in the department of general services. In the execution of the duties provided by this chapter, the state registrar of voters and the state commissioner of elections shall provide the maximum public access to the electoral process permitted by law.
2. The registrar shall offer to each county in the state the opportunity to arrange for performance of all functions referred to in subsection 1 by the data processing facilities of the department of general services, commencing at the earliest practicable time, at a cost to the county determined in accordance with the standard charges for those services adopted by the registration commission. A county may accept this offer without taking bids under section 47.5.
3. Any county may use its own data processing facilities for voter registration record keeping and utilization functions, if the system design and the form in which the registration records are kept conform to specifications established by rules promulgated by the registration commission. Each county exercising the option to maintain its own voter registration records under this subsection shall provide the registrar, at the county's expense, original and updated voter registration lists in a form and at times prescribed by the registrar.
4. Not later than July 1, 1984, information listed in section 48A.11 contained in a county's manual records but not on the county's computer readable records shall be provided to the registrar in a form specified by the registrar. The registrar shall require that any information supplied under section 48A.11, except the signature and attestation of the registrant, be provided to the registrar in a form specified by the registrar.
[C77, 79, 81, § 47.7; 81 Acts, ch 34, § 10]
83 Acts, ch 176, § 1, 10; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 313; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §47
Referred to in § 39.3, 48A.36
Legislative intent that state data processing services to support voter registration file maintenance and storage be provided without charge; continuation of existing agreements until expiration or termination or amendment by mutual consent; 97 Acts, ch 211, § 25
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