49.79  Challenges.

Any person offering to vote may be challenged as unqualified by any precinct election official or elector; and it is the duty of each official to challenge any person offering to vote whom the official knows or suspects is not duly qualified. A ballot shall be received from a voter who is challenged, but only in accordance with section 49.81.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 258; R60, § 493; C73, § 619; C97, § 1115; S13, § 1087-a9; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 571, 796; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 43.43, 49.79; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.79]


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