Amend House File 95 as follows:
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   Section 1.  Section 43.49, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   On the Monday or Tuesday following the primary election, the board of supervisors shall meet, open, and canvass the returns from each voting precinct in the county, and make abstracts thereof, stating the following:
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   (3)  The document includes an expiration date, and the document is not expired at the time it is presented or expired after the date of the last preceding general election.
   3.  Page 6, by striking lines 6 through 8 and inserting: 
   (4)  The document was issued by the United States or the state of Iowa.
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   Sec. ___.  Section 50.24, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The county board of supervisors shall meet to canvass the vote on the firstMonday or Tuesday after the day of each election to which this chapter is applicable, unless the law authorizing the election specifies another date for the canvass. If thatMonday or Tuesday is a public holiday, section 4.1, subsection 34, controls.
   Sec. ___.  Section 50.46, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   50.46  Special elections —— canvass and certificate.
   When a special election has been held to fill a vacancy, pursuant to section 69.14, the board of county canvassers shall meet no earlier than 1:00 p.m. on the second day after the election, on the first Tuesday following the election and canvass the votes cast at the election. If the second day first Tuesday after the election is a public holiday, section 4.1, subsection 34, controls. The commissioner, as soon as the canvass is completed, shall transmit to the state commissioner an abstract of the votes so canvassed, and the state board, within five days after receiving such abstracts, shall canvass the tally lists. A certificate of election shall be issued by the county or state board of canvassers, as in other cases. All the provisions regulating elections, obtaining tally lists, and canvass of votes at general elections, except as to time, shall apply to special elections.
   Sec. ___.  Section 50.48, subsection 7, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  If the election is an election held by a city which is not the final election for the office in question, the recount shall progress according to the times provided by this subsection. If this subsection applies the canvass shall be held by the second day on the Tuesday after the election, the request for a recount must be made by the third eighth day after the election, the board shall convene to conduct the recount by the sixth ninth day after the election, and the report shall be filed by the eleventh thirteenth day after the election.
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   Sec. ___.  Section 277.20, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   On the next Friday Tuesday after the regular school election, the county board of supervisors shall canvass the returns made to the county commissioner of elections from the several precinct polling places and the absentee ballot counting board, ascertain the result of the voting with regard to every matter voted upon and cause a record to be made thereof as required by section 50.24. Special elections held in school districts shall be canvassed at the time and in the manner required by that section. The board shall declare the results of the voting for members of boards of directors of school corporations nominated pursuant to section 277.4, and the commissioner shall at once issue a certificate of election to each person declared elected. The board shall also declare the results of the voting on any public question submitted to the voters of a single school district, and the commissioner shall certify the result as required by section 50.27.
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   Sec. ___.  Section 331.605, subsection 1, paragraph f, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   f.  A county fee of four dollars for a certified copy of a birth record, death record, or marriage certificate.  The fee prescribed by this paragraph shall not be assessed to applicants requesting a certified copy of a birth record if the applicant executes an affidavit indicating the applicant is requesting the certified copy of a birth record for the purpose of obtaining an Iowa nonoperator’s identification card to be used for voting.
   Sec. ___.  Section 376.7, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  If a primary election is necessary, it shall be held on the Tuesday four weeks before the date of the regular city election. For each office on the ballot, a voter shall only vote for the number of persons to be elected to that office at the regular city election. The county board of supervisors shall publicly canvass the tally lists of the vote cast in the primary election, following the procedures prescribed in section 50.24, at a meeting to be held on the second day first Tuesday following the primary election, and beginning no earlier than 1:00 p.m. on that day.
   Sec. ___.  Section 376.9, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A runoff election may be held only for positions unfilled because of failure of a sufficient number of candidates to receive a majority vote in the regular city election. When a council has chosen a runoff election in lieu of a primary, the county board of supervisors shall publicly canvass the tally lists of the vote cast in the regular city election, following the procedures prescribed in section 50.24, at a meeting to be held on the second day first Tuesday following the regular city election, and beginning no earlier than 1:00 p.m. on that day. Candidates who do not receive a majority of the votes cast for an office, but who receive the highest number of votes cast for that office in the regular city election, to the extent of twice the number of unfilled positions, are candidates in the runoff election.
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   8.  By renumbering as necessary.

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