House Amendment 8080


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2367 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
     1  3 clause and inserting the following:
     1  4    <Section 1.  Section 53.20, Code 2007, is amended
     1  5 to read as follows:
     1  6    53.20  SPECIAL PRECINCT ESTABLISHED.
     1  7    1.  There is established in each county a special
     1  8 precinct to be known as the absentee ballot and
     1  9 special voters precinct. Its jurisdiction shall be
     1 10 conterminous with the borders of the county, for the
     1 11 purposes specified by sections 53.22 and 53.23, and
     1 12 the requirement that precincts not cross the
     1 13 boundaries of legislative districts shall not be
     1 14 applicable to it. The commissioner shall draw up an
     1 15 election board panel for the special precinct in the
     1 16 manner prescribed by section 49.15, having due regard
     1 17 for the nature and extent of the duties required of
     1 18 members of the election board and the election
     1 19 officers to be appointed from the panel.
     1 20    2.  Results from the special precinct shall be
     1 21 reported separately from the results of the ballots
     1 22 cast at the polls on election day.  The commissioner
     1 23 shall for general elections also report the results of
     1 24 the special precinct by the resident precincts of the
     1 25 voters who cast absentee and provisional ballots.  For
     1 26 all other elections, the commissioner may report the
     1 27 results of the special precinct by the resident
     1 28 precincts of the voters who cast absentee and
     1 29 provisional ballots, or may report the absentee
     1 30 results as a single precinct.  The separate residence
     1 31 precinct reports shall be provided in one of the
     1 32 following ways:
     1 33    a.  The commissioner may manually sort the absentee
     1 34 ballots by precinct upon receipt of completed ballots.
     1 35 Each group of ballots from an individual precinct
     1 36 shall be tallied together.
     1 37    b.  The commissioner may prepare a separate
     1 38 absentee ballot style for each precinct in the county
     1 39 and shall program the voting system to produce reports
     1 40 by the resident precincts of the voters.>
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     1 44 JACOBS of Polk
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     1 48 MASCHER of Johnson
     1 49 HF 2367.702 82
     1 50 sc/nh/20588

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