2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.37 - ARRANGEMENT OF BALLOT.

        49.37  ARRANGEMENT OF BALLOT.
         1.  For general elections, and for other elections in which more
      than one partisan office will be filled, the first section of the
      ballot shall be for straight party voting.
         a.  Each political party or organization which has nominated
      candidates for more than one office shall be listed.  Instructions to
      the voter for straight party or organization voting shall be in
      substantially the following form:

         "To vote for all candidates from a single party or organization,
      mark the voting target next to the party or organization name.  Not
      all parties or organizations have nominated candidates for all
      offices.  Marking a straight party or organization vote does not
      include votes for nonpartisan offices, judges, or questions."

         b.  Political parties and nonparty political organizations
      which have nominated candidates for only one office shall be listed
      below the other political organizations under the following heading:

         "Other Political Organizations.  The following organizations have
      nominated candidates for only one office:".

         c.  Offices shall be arranged in groups.  Partisan offices,
      nonpartisan offices, judges, and public measures shall be separated
      by a distinct line appearing on the ballot.
         2.  The commissioner shall arrange the ballot in conformity with
      the certificate issued by the state commissioner under section 43.73,
      in that the names of the respective candidates for each political
      party shall appear in the order they appeared on the certificate,
      above or to the left of the nonparty political organization
      candidates.
         3.  The commissioner shall arrange the partisan county offices on
      the ballot with the board of supervisors first, followed by the other
      county offices in the same sequence in which they appear in section
      39.17.  Nonpartisan offices shall be listed after partisan offices.
      

         Section History: Early Form

         [C97, § 1106; S13, § 1106; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 755; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.37] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §37; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 35, 36; 2005 Acts, ch
      152, §9; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §151
         Referred to in § 43.31, 49.57A