S-5114

   Amend  the amendment, S-5097, to Senate File 2346 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking line 13 and inserting <candidates on the ballot as provided in this paragraph and paragraph “d”. The>
   2.  Page 1, by striking line 16 and inserting <Except as described in paragraph “d”, the commissioner shall arrange the ballot so that the>
   3.  Page 2, before line 5 by inserting: 
   <d.  (1)  For candidates for the general assembly or the office of a statewide elected official as defined in section 68B.2, the commissioner shall place at the top of the ballot the candidates from the republican party and the democratic party, and candidates not affiliated with any organization in rotating order such that the entity whose candidate appeared at the top of the ballot for one election shall appear in the second position for the next election and continuing in a like manner.
   (2)  The names of all other candidates shall be placed below the names of the candidates described in subparagraph (1).>

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DAVID JOHNSON