At least sixty-nine days before each judicial election, the state commissioner of elections shall certify to the county commissioner of elections of each county a list of the judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, and district court including district associate judges, full-time associate juvenile judges, and full-time associate probate judges, and clerks of the district court to be voted on in each county at that election. The county commissioner of elections shall place the names upon the ballot in the order in which they appear in the certificate, unless only one county is voting thereon. The state commissioner of elections shall rotate the names in the certificate by county, or the county commissioner of elections shall rotate them upon the ballot by precinct if only one county is voting thereon. The names of all judges and clerks to be voted on shall be placed upon one ballot, which shall be in substantially the following form:
STATE OF IOWA JUDICIAL BALLOT (Date)
VOTE ON ALL NAMES BY PLACING AN X IN THE APPROPRIATE BOX AFTER EACH NAME.
SUPREME COURT
Shall the following judges of the Supreme Court be retained in office?
CANDIDATE'S NAME        YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]     CANDIDATE'S NAME          YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]COURT OF APPEALS
Shall the following judges of the Court of Appeals be retained in office?
CANDIDATE'S NAME        YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]     CANDIDATE'S NAME          YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]DISTRICT COURT
Shall the following judge, associate judge, associate juvenile judge, or associate probate judge of the District Court be retained in office?
CANDIDATE'S NAME        YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]
Shall the following clerk of the District Court be retained in office?
CANDIDATE'S NAME        YES  [ ]                  NO  [ ]
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 46.21]
83 Acts, ch 186, § 10024, 10201; 89 Acts, ch 136, §30; 99 Acts, ch 93, §3
Referred to in § 602.1216, 602.6305, 602.7103C, 633.20C
Voting mark generally, see § 49.92
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