2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.12 - ELECTION BOARDS.

        49.12  ELECTION BOARDS.
         There shall be appointed in each election precinct an election
      board which shall ordinarily consist of three or five precinct
      election officials.  At the commissioner's discretion, additional
      precinct election officials may be appointed to work at any election.
      Double election boards may be appointed for any precinct as provided
      by chapter 51.  Not more than a simple majority of the members of the
      election board in any precinct, or of the two combined boards in any
      precinct for which a double election board is appointed, shall be
      members of the same political party or organization if one or more
      registered voters of another party or organization are qualified and
      willing to serve on the board.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 246, 248, 1111; R60, § 481, 483, 2027, 2030, 2031; C73, §
      606, 1717, 1719; C97, § 1093, 2746, 2751, 2756; S13, § 2756; SS15, §
      1087-a5, 1093; C24, § 559, 730, 731, 735, 4165, 4195, 4209, 4211;
      C27, § 559, 730, 731, 735, 4165, 4195, 4209, 4211-b2; C31, 35, § 559,
      730, 731, 735, 4165, 4216-c10; C39, § 559, 730, 731, 735, 4165,
      4216.10; C46, 50, § 43.31, 49.12, 49.13, 49.17, 49.19, 276.12,
      277.10; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 43.31, 49.12, 49.13, 49.17,
      275.19, 277.10; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.12] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         87 Acts, ch 221, § 12; 88 Acts, ch 1119, § 15; 95 Acts, ch 67,
      §53; 98 Acts, ch 1123, § 4
         Referred to in § 39A.1, 49.14, 49.16, 49.18, 50.21, 50.22, 53.23