Senate Amendment 3189


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 653, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 4, by inserting after line 17, the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  48A.7B  POST=ELECTION
     1  6 AUDIT OF ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION.
     1  7    1.  After each general election, the state
     1  8 commissioner shall conduct a post=election audit of
     1  9 election day registration balloting as provided in
     1 10 this section.
     1 11    2.  The registration applications for which a
     1 12 post=election audit shall be conducted shall be those
     1 13 registration applications submitted at the precinct
     1 14 polling place on election day.  The registration
     1 15 applications shall be randomly selected on a statewide
     1 16 basis.  The number of registrations to be audited
     1 17 shall be an amount equal to five percent of the
     1 18 registration applications submitted on election day.
     1 19 The state commissioner shall compare each registration
     1 20 application selected with all applications submitted
     1 21 at precinct polling places on election day to
     1 22 determine whether any person submitted an application
     1 23 and voted in more than one precinct.
     1 24    3.  If the audit reveals that a person submitted an
     1 25 application and voted in more than one precinct on
     1 26 election day, the state commissioner shall immediately
     1 27 notify the county attorney of each county involved.
     1 28 The state commissioner shall also immediately contact
     1 29 the commissioner of the appropriate county and shall
     1 30 instruct the commissioner to change the status of the
     1 31 registration to inactive status.>
     1 32 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
     1 33
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     1 35                               
     1 36 MARK ZIEMAN
     1 37 DAVID L. HARTSUCH
     1 38 JOHN PUTNEY
     1 39 JERRY BEHN
     1 40 RON WIECK
     1 41 LARRY NOBLE
     1 42 DAVE MULDER
     1 43 LARRY McKIBBEN
     1 44 NANCY J. BOETTGER
     1 45 PAUL McKINLEY
     1 46 DAVID JOHNSON
     1 47 BRAD ZAUN
     1 48 JAMES A. SEYMOUR
     1 49 E. THURMAN GASKILL
     1 50 PAT WARD
     2  1 JAMES F. HAHN
     2  2 STEVE KETTERING
     2  3 JEFF ANGELO
     2  4 MARY A. LUNDBY
     2  5 HF 653.505 82
     2  6 sc/je/7943

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