Senate
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SENATE
FILE
2346
BY
COMMITTEE
ON
STATE
GOVERNMENT
(SUCCESSOR
TO
SSB
3191)
(As
Amended
and
Passed
by
the
Senate
March
6,
2018
)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
ballot
arrangement
for
certain
partisan
1
offices.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
49.31,
subsection
1,
Code
2018,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
1.
a.
All
ballots
shall
be
arranged
with
the
names
of
3
candidates
for
each
office
listed
below
the
office
title.
4
For
partisan
elections
the
name
of
the
political
party
or
5
organization
which
nominated
each
candidate
shall
be
listed
6
after
or
below
each
candidate’s
name.
7
b.
(1)
The
commissioner
shall
determine
the
order
of
8
political
parties
and
nonparty
political
organizations
9
candidates
on
the
ballot
as
provided
in
this
paragraph
.
The
10
sequence
order
shall
be
the
same
for
each
office
on
the
ballot
11
and
for
each
precinct
in
the
county
voting
in
the
election.
12
The
commissioner
shall
arrange
the
ballot
so
that
the
13
candidates
of
each
political
party,
as
defined
in
section
43.2,
14
for
each
partisan
office
appearing
on
the
ballot
shall
appear
15
in
descending
order
so
that
the
candidates
of
the
political
16
party
whose
candidate
for
governor
received
the
greatest
number
17
of
votes
in
the
commissioner’s
county
at
the
most
recent
18
general
election
for
the
office
of
the
governor
shall
appear
19
first
on
the
ballot,
and
the
candidates
of
the
political
party
20
whose
candidate
for
governor
received
the
next
greatest
number
21
of
votes
in
the
commissioner’s
county
in
such
an
election
22
appear
next
on
the
ballot,
and
continuing
in
descending
order
23
in
the
same
manner.
24
(2)
If
the
candidate
for
governor
from
two
or
more
political
25
parties
received
the
same
number
of
votes
in
the
county,
the
26
commissioner
shall
determine
the
order
of
arranging
political
27
party
candidates
for
those
political
parties
based
upon
the
28
number
of
votes
received
in
the
most
recent
general
election
29
for
the
office
of
the
governor
for
which
the
number
of
votes
30
received
for
the
candidates
of
those
political
parties
were
31
different.
32
c.
The
commissioner
shall
determine
the
order
of
candidates
33
of
nonparty
political
organizations
on
the
ballot.
The
order
34
shall
be
the
same
for
each
office
on
the
ballot
and
for
each
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precinct
in
the
county
voting
in
the
election.
1
Sec.
2.
Section
49.31,
subsection
2,
paragraph
b,
Code
2018,
2
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
3
b.
The
Notwithstanding
any
provision
of
subsection
1,
4
paragraph
“b”
,
to
the
contrary,
the
commissioner
shall
then
5
arrange
the
surnames
of
each
political
party’s
candidates
for
6
each
office
to
which
two
or
more
persons
are
to
be
elected
at
7
large
alphabetically
for
the
respective
offices
for
the
first
8
precinct
on
the
list;
thereafter,
for
each
political
party
and
9
for
each
succeeding
precinct,
the
names
appearing
first
for
10
the
respective
offices
in
the
last
preceding
precinct
shall
11
be
placed
last,
so
that
the
names
that
were
second
before
the
12
change
shall
be
first
after
the
change.
The
commissioner
may
13
also
rotate
the
names
of
candidates
of
a
political
party
in
the
14
reverse
order
of
that
provided
in
this
subsection
or
alternate
15
the
rotation
so
that
the
candidates
of
different
parties
shall
16
not
be
paired
as
they
proceed
through
the
rotation.
The
17
procedure
for
arrangement
of
names
on
ballots
provided
in
this
18
section
shall
likewise
be
substantially
followed
in
elections
19
in
political
subdivisions
of
less
than
a
county.
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