2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 44 - NOMINATIONS BY NONPARTY POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
44.18 - AFFILIATION ON VOTER REGISTRATION FORM.

        44.18  AFFILIATION ON VOTER REGISTRATION FORM.
         1.  A nonparty political organization that nominated a candidate
      whose name appeared on the general election ballot for a federal
      office, for governor, or for any other statewide elective office in
      any of the preceding ten years may request registration of voters
      showing their affiliation with the nonparty political organization
      pursuant to this section.
         2.  The organization shall file the following documents with the
      state registrar of voters on or before December 1 of an even-numbered
      year:
         a.  A petition in the form prescribed by the registrar and
      signed by no fewer than eight hundred fifty eligible electors
      residing in at least five counties in the state.  The petition shall
      include the official name of the organization; the organization's
      name as the organization requests it to appear on the voter
      registration form if different from the organization's official name;
      and the name, address, and telephone number of the contact person for
      the organization.  Each person who signs the petition shall include
      the person's signature, printed name, residence address with house
      number, street name, city, and county, and the date the person signed
      the petition.
         b.  A copy of the nonparty political organization's articles
      of incorporation, bylaws, constitution, or other document relating to
      establishment of the organization.  Such copy shall be certified as a
      true copy of the original by the custodian of the original document.

         c.  An application form prescribed by the state registrar of
      voters.  The form shall include all of the following:
         (1)  The official name of the nonparty political organization.
         (2)  The name, address, and telephone number of the contact person
      for the organization who is responsible for the application.
         (3)  The signature of the chief executive officer of the
      organization approving the application.
         (4)  The organization's name as the organization requests it to
      appear on the voter registration form if different from the
      organization's official name.
         3.  The nonparty political organization's name and its name as
      listed on the voter registration form shall conform to the
      requirements of section 43.121.  The registrar shall not invalidate
      the application solely because the registrar finds the official name
      of the organization or the name to be included on the voter
      registration form to be unacceptable.  If the registrar finds the
      name to be unacceptable, the registrar shall contact the organization
      and provide assistance in identifying an appropriate official name
      for the organization and for identifying the organization on the
      voter registration form.  A determination by the registrar that the
      official name or voter registration form name requested is acceptable
      for use within the voter registration system is final.
         4.  The registrar and the voter registration commission may
      require biennial filings to update contact information.
         5.  Beginning in January 2011, and each odd-numbered year
      thereafter, the registrar and the voter registration commission may
      review the number of voters registered as affiliated with a nonparty
      political organization.  If the number of registrants, including both
      active and inactive voters, is fewer than 150, the commission shall
      declare the organization to be dormant for purposes of voter
      registration and may revise the voter registration form and
      instructions and electronic voter registration system to remove the
      organization from the list of nonparty political organizations with
      which a voter may register as affiliated.  However, a change shall
      not be made to the record of political affiliation of individual
      registrants unless the registrant requests the change.
         6.  If a political party, as defined in section 43.2, fails to
      receive a sufficient number of votes in a general election to retain
      status as a political party and the former political party organizes
      as a nonparty political organization, the organization may request
      registration of voters showing their affiliation with the
      organization.  A change shall not be made to the record of political
      party affiliation of individual registrants unless the registrant
      requests the change.  

         2008 Acts, ch 1115, §72
         Referred to in § 48A.11