Senate File 2089 - Enrolled

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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2089
  1  2
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO APPLICATIONS FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
  1  5
  1  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  7
  1  8    Section 1.  Section 53.2, subsection 2, Code Supplement
  1  9 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 10    2.  a.  The state commissioner shall prescribe a form for
  1 11 absentee ballot applications.  However, if a registered voter
  1 12 submits an application on a sheet of paper no smaller than
  1 13 three by five inches in size that includes all of the
  1 14 information required in this section, the prescribed form is
  1 15 not required.
  1 16    b.  Absentee ballot applications may include instructions
  1 17 to send the application directly to the county commissioner of
  1 18 elections.  However, no absentee ballot application shall be
  1 19 preaddressed or printed with instructions to send the
  1 20 applications to anyone other than the appropriate
  1 21 commissioner.
  1 22    c.  No absentee ballot application shall be preaddressed or
  1 23 printed with instructions to send the ballot to anyone other
  1 24 than the voter.
  1 25    Sec. 2.  Section 53.2, subsection 4, Code Supplement 2007,
  1 26 is amended to read as follows:
  1 27    4.  Each application shall contain the name and signature
  1 28 of the registered voter, the registered voter's date of birth,
  1 29 the address at which the voter is registered to vote, and the
  1 30 name or date of the election for which the absentee ballot is
  1 31 requested, and such other information as may be necessary to
  1 32 determine the correct absentee ballot for the registered
  1 33 voter.  If insufficient information has been provided, either
  1 34 on the prescribed form or on an application created by the
  1 35 applicant, the commissioner shall, by the best means
  2  1 available, obtain the additional necessary information.
  2  2    Sec. 3.  Section 53.3, Code 2007, is amended to read as
  2  3 follows:
  2  4    53.3  RECEIPT REQUIRED REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN ABSENTEE
  2  5 BALLOT APPLICATIONS == PRESCRIBED FORM == RECEIPT.
  2  6    1.  When an application for an absentee ballot is solicited
  2  7 by, or collected for return to the commissioner by, a person
  2  8 acting as an actual or implied agent for a political party,
  2  9 candidate, or committee, as defined by chapter 68A, the person
  2 10 shall provide the applicant with the form prescribed by the
  2 11 state commissioner.
  2 12    2.  a.  When an application for an absentee ballot is
  2 13 solicited by, and returned to the commissioner by, a person
  2 14 acting as an actual or implied agent for a political party,
  2 15 candidate, or committee, as defined by chapter 68A, the person
  2 16 shall issue to the applicant a receipt for the completed
  2 17 application.
  2 18    b.  The receipt shall contain the following information:
  2 19    1. (1)  The name of the applicant.
  2 20    2. (2)  The date and time the completed application was
  2 21 received from the applicant.
  2 22    3. (3)  The name and date of the election for which the
  2 23 application is being completed.
  2 24    4. (4)  The name of the political party, candidate, or
  2 25 committee for whom the person is soliciting and returning the
  2 26 application for the absentee ballot.
  2 27    5. (5)  The name of the person acting as an actual or
  2 28 implied agent for the political party, candidate, or
  2 29 committee.
  2 30    6. (6)  A statement that the application will be delivered
  2 31 to the appropriate commissioner within seventy=two hours of
  2 32 the date and time the completed application was received from
  2 33 the applicant or no later than five p.m. on the Friday before
  2 34 the election, whichever is earlier.
  2 35    7. (7)  A statement that an absentee ballot will be mailed
  3  1 to the applicant within twenty=four hours after the ballot for
  3  2 the election is available.
  3  3    c.  The commissioner shall make receipt forms required by
  3  4 this section available for photocopying at the expense of the
  3  5 political party, candidate, or committee.
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  3  8                                                             
  3  9                               JOHN P. KIBBIE
  3 10                               President of the Senate
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  3 13                                                             
  3 14                               PATRICK J. MURPHY
  3 15                               Speaker of the House
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  3 17    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  3 18 is known as Senate File 2089, Eighty=second General Assembly.
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  3 21                                                             
  3 22                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  3 23                               Secretary of the Senate
  3 24 Approved                , 2008
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  3 27                                
  3 28 CHESTER J. CULVER
  3 29 Governor