House Amendment 1103


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 475 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 32, by inserting after line 21 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  Section 53.20, subsection 2, Code 2009,
     1  5 is amended to read as follows:
     1  6    2.  Results from the special precinct shall be
     1  7 reported separately from the results of the ballots
     1  8 cast at the polls on election day.  The commissioner
     1  9 shall for general elections also report the results of
     1 10 the special precinct by the resident precincts of the
     1 11 voters who cast absentee and provisional ballots.  For
     1 12 all other elections, the commissioner may report the
     1 13 results of the special precinct by the resident
     1 14 precincts of the voters who cast absentee and
     1 15 provisional ballots, or may report the absentee
     1 16 results as a single precinct.  The separate residence
     1 17 precinct reports shall be provided in one of the
     1 18 following ways:
     1 19    a.  The commissioner may manually sort the absentee
     1 20 ballots by precinct upon receipt of completed ballots.
     1 21 Each group of ballots from an individual precinct
     1 22 shall be tallied together.
     1 23    b.  The commissioner may prepare a separate
     1 24 absentee ballot style for each precinct in the county
     1 25 and shall program the voting system to produce reports
     1 26 by the resident precincts of the voters.  For the
     1 27 general election and for any election in which the
     1 28 commissioner determines in advance of the election to
     1 29 report the results of the special precinct by the
     1 30 resident precincts of the voters who cast absentee and
     1 31 provisional ballots, the commissioner shall prepare a
     1 32 separate absentee ballot style for each precinct in
     1 33 the county and shall program the voting system to
     1 34 produce reports by the resident precincts of the
     1 35 voters.>
     1 36 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 40 RANTS of Woodbury
     1 41 HF 475.501 83
     1 42 sc/nh/22172
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