The county board of supervisors shall meet to canvass the vote on the first Monday or Tuesday after the day of each election to which this chapter is applicable, unless the law authorizing the election specifies another date for the canvass. If that Monday or Tuesday is a public holiday, section 4.1, subsection 34, controls. Upon convening, the board shall open and canvass the tally lists and shall prepare abstracts stating, in words written at length, the number of votes cast in the county, or in that portion of the county in which the election was held, for each office and on each question on the ballot for the election. The board shall contact the chairperson of the special precinct board before adjourning and include in the canvass any absentee ballots which were received after the polls closed in accordance with section 53.17 and which were canvassed by the special precinct board after election day. The abstract shall further indicate the name of each person who received votes for each office on the ballot, and the number of votes each person named received for that office, and the number of votes for and against each question submitted to the voters at the election. The votes of all write-in candidates who each received less than two percent of the votes cast for an office shall be reported collectively under the heading "scattering".
The board shall also prepare a certificate showing the total number of people who cast ballots in the election. For general elections and elections held pursuant to section 69.14, a copy of the certificate shall be forwarded to the state commissioner.
Any obvious clerical errors in the tally lists from the precincts shall be corrected by the supervisors. Complete records of any changes shall be recorded in the minutes of the canvass.
[C51, § 271, 304, 305; R60, § 335, 506, 538, 539, 1131; C73, § 502, 503, 631, 635, 662; C97, § 1146, 1149; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 859, 860, 863; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 50.20, 50.21, 50.24; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 50.24]
84 Acts, ch 1291, § 10; 89 Acts, ch 136, §49; 90 Acts, ch 1238, § 26; 93 Acts, ch 143, § 22; 95 Acts, ch 189, §10
Referred to in § 50.48, 52.21, 277.20, 331.383, 376.7, 376.9
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