In any county in which the board of supervisors has adopted voting by means of an electronic voting system, the commissioner may elect to also conduct absentee voting by use of such a system if the system so used is compatible with the counting center serving the precinct polling places in the county where voting is by means of an electronic voting system. In any other county, the commissioner may with approval of the board of supervisors conduct absentee voting by use of an electronic voting system. All provisions of chapter 53 shall apply to such absentee voting, so far as applicable. When a ballot card is used for voting by mail it shall be accompanied by a stylus, voter instructions, and a specimen ballot showing the proper positions to vote on the ballot card for each candidate or public question. The card shall be mounted on material suitable to receive the punched out chip. In counties where absentee voting is conducted by use of an electronic voting system, the special precinct counting board shall, at the time required by chapter 53, prepare absentee ballots for delivery to the counting center in the manner prescribed by this chapter.
The absentee and special precinct board shall follow the process prescribed in section 52.37, subsection 2, in handling damaged or defective ballots and in counting write-in votes on special paper ballots.
[C77, 79, 81, § 52.33]
97 Acts, ch 170, §62
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