After the total vote for each candidate has been ascertained, and before leaving the room or voting place, the precinct election officials shall make and sign the canvass forms referred to in section 52.21, which canvass shall serve as a written statement of election. Said canvass statement shall be in lieu of the tally list required in section 50.16.
The inspection sheets from each machine used in the election and one copy of the printed results from each machine shall be signed by all precinct election officials and, with any paper or papers upon which write-in votes were recorded by voters, shall be securely sealed in an envelope marked with the name and date of the election, the precinct, and the serial numbers of the machines from which the enclosed results were removed. This envelope shall be preserved, unopened, for twenty-two months following elections for federal offices and for six months following elections for all other offices unless a recount is requested pursuant to section 50.48 or an election contest is pending. The envelope shall be destroyed in the same manner as ballots pursuant to section 50.13. Additional copies of the results, if any, shall be delivered to the commissioner with the other supplies from the election pursuant to section 50.17.
[S13, § 1137-a26; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 925; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.23]
86 Acts, ch 1224, § 23; 93 Acts, ch 143, § 26
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