S-5097

   Amend Senate File 2346 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 49.31, subsection 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  a.  All ballots shall be arranged with the names of candidates for each office listed below the office title. For partisan elections the name of the political party or organization which nominated each candidate shall be listed after or below each candidate’s name.
   b.  (1)  The commissioner shall determine the order of political parties and nonparty political organizations candidates on the ballot as provided in this paragraph. The sequence order shall be the same for each office on the ballot and for each precinct in the county voting in the election.  The commissioner shall arrange the ballot so that the candidates of each political party, as defined in section 43.2, for each partisan office appearing on the ballot shall appear in descending order so that the candidates of the political party whose candidate for governor received the greatest number of votes in the commissioner’s county at the most recent general election for the office of the governor shall appear first on the ballot, and the candidates of the political party whose candidate for governor received the next greatest number of votes in the commissioner’s county in such an election appear next on the ballot, and continuing in descending order in the same manner.
   (2)  If the candidate for governor from two or more political parties received the same number of votes in the county, the commissioner shall determine the order of arranging political party candidates for those political parties based upon the number of votes received in the most recent general election for the office of the governor for which the number of votes received for the candidates of those political parties were different.
   c.  The commissioner shall determine the order of candidates of nonparty political organizations on the ballot. The order shall be the same for each office on the ballot and for each precinct in the county voting in the election.
   Sec. 2.  Section 49.31, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  The Notwithstanding any provision of subsection 1, paragraph “b”, to the contrary, the commissioner shall then arrange the surnames of each political party’s candidates for each office to which two or more persons are to be elected at large alphabetically for the respective offices for the first precinct on the list; thereafter, for each political party and for each succeeding precinct, the names appearing first for the respective offices in the last preceding precinct shall be placed last, so that the names that were second before the change shall be first after the change. The commissioner may also rotate the names of candidates of a political party in the reverse order of that provided in this subsection or alternate the rotation so that the candidates of different parties shall not be paired as they proceed through the rotation. The procedure for arrangement of names on ballots provided in this section shall likewise be substantially followed in elections in political subdivisions of less than a county.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 4 and inserting <An Act relating to the ballot arrangement for certain partisan offices.>

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JAKE CHAPMAN