2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 48A - VOTER REGISTRATION
48A.26 - ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REGISTRATION FORM.

        48A.26  ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REGISTRATION FORM.
         1. a.  Except as otherwise provided in paragraph "b",
      within seven working days of receipt of a voter registration form or
      change of information in a voter registration record the commissioner
      shall send an acknowledgment to the registrant at the mailing address
      shown on the registration form.  The acknowledgment shall be sent by
      nonforwardable mail.
         b.  For a voter registration form or change of information in
      a voter registration record submitted at a precinct caucus, the
      commissioner shall send an acknowledgment within forty-five days of
      receipt of the form or change of information.
         2.  If the registration form appears on its face to be complete
      and proper, the acknowledgment shall state that the registrant is now
      a registered voter of the county.  The acknowledgment shall also
      specify the name of the precinct and the usual polling place for the
      precinct in which the person is now registered.  The acknowledgment
      may include the political party affiliation most recently recorded by
      the registrant.
         3.  If the registration form is missing required information
      pursuant to section 48A.11, subsection 8, the acknowledgment shall
      advise the applicant what additional information is required.  The
      commissioner shall enclose a new registration form for the applicant
      to use.  If the registration form has no address, the commissioner
      shall make a reasonable effort to determine where the acknowledgment
      should be sent.  If the incomplete registration form is received
      during the period in which registration is closed pursuant to section
      48A.9 but by 5:00 p.m. on the Saturday before the election for
      general and primary elections or by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before
      the election for all other elections, the commissioner shall send a
      notice advising the applicant of election day and in-person absentee
      registration procedures under section 48A.7A.
         4.  If the registrant applied by mail to register to vote and did
      not answer either "yes" or "no" to the question in section 48A.11,
      subsection 3, paragraph "a", the application shall be processed.
      If the application is complete and proper in all other respects and
      information on the application is verified, as required by section
      48A.25A, the applicant shall be registered to vote and sent an
      acknowledgment.
         5.  If the registrant applied by mail to register to vote and
      answered "no" to the question in section 48A.11, subsection 3,
      paragraph "a", the application shall not be processed.  The
      acknowledgment shall advise the applicant that the registration has
      been rejected because the applicant indicated on the registration
      form that the applicant is not a citizen of the United States.
         6.  If the acknowledgment is returned as undeliverable by the
      United States postal service, the commissioner shall follow the
      procedure described in section 48A.29, subsection 1.
         7.  If a registrant has not supplied enough information on a
      registration form for the commissioner to determine the correct
      precinct and other districts, the commissioner shall obtain the
      information as quickly as possible either from the registrant or
      other sources available to the commissioner.
         8.  An improperly addressed or delivered registration form shall
      be forwarded to the appropriate county commissioner of registration
      within two working days after it is received by any other official.
      The date of registration shall be the date the registration form was
      received by the first official.  If the registration form was
      postmarked fifteen or more days before an election and the
      registration form was received by the first official after the close
      of registration, the registration form shall be considered on time
      for the election.
         9.  When a person who is at least seventeen and one-half years of
      age but less than eighteen years of age registers to vote, the
      commissioner shall maintain a record of the registration so as to
      clearly indicate that it will not take effect until the registrant's
      eighteenth birthday and that the person is registered and qualifies
      to vote at any election held on or after that date.  

         94 Acts, ch 1169, §27; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 15; 2004 Acts, ch 1083,
      §14, 15, 37; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §79; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §17
         Referred to in § 48A.11, 48A.26A