2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.26 - COMMISSIONER TO DECIDE METHOD OF VOTING -- COUNTING OF BALLOTS.

        49.26  COMMISSIONER TO DECIDE METHOD OF VOTING --
      COUNTING OF BALLOTS.
         1.  In all elections regulated by this chapter, the voting shall
      be by paper ballots printed and distributed as provided by law, or by
      voting systems meeting the requirements of chapter 52.
         2. a.  The commissioner shall determine in advance of each
      election conducted for a city of three thousand five hundred or less
      population or for any school district whether the ballots will be
      counted by automatic tabulating equipment or by the precinct election
      officials.  In making such a determination, the commissioner shall
      consider voter turnout for recent similar elections and factors
      considered likely to affect voter turnout for the forthcoming
      election.
         b.  If the commissioner concludes that voting will probably be
      so light as to make counting of ballots by the precinct election
      officials less expensive than preparation and use of automatic
      tabulating equipment, paper ballots shall be used.  The commissioner
      may use ballots and instructions similar to those used when the
      ballots are counted by automatic tabulating equipment.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 2754; C24, 27, § 4203; C31, 35, § 4216-c15; C39, §
      4216.15; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 277.15; C75, 77, 79,
      81, § 49.26] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         97 Acts, ch 170, § 28; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §24
         Referred to in § 49.19, 49.25, 51.15, 52.1