2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.98 - COUNTING BALLOTS.

        49.98  COUNTING BALLOTS.
         The ballots shall be counted according to the voters' marks on
      them as provided in sections 49.92 to 49.97, and not otherwise.  If,
      for any reason, it is impossible to determine from a ballot, as
      marked, the choice of the voter for any office, the vote for that
      office shall not be counted.  When there is a conflict between a
      straight party or organization vote for one political party or
      nonparty political organization and the vote cast by marking the
      voting target next to the name of a candidate for another political
      party or nonparty political organization on the ballot, the mark next
      to the name of the candidate shall be held to control, and the
      straight party or organization vote in that case shall not apply as
      to that office.  A ballot shall be rejected if the voter used a mark
      to identify the voter's ballot.  For each voting system, the state
      commissioner shall, by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 17A, develop
      uniform definitions of what constitutes a vote.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C97, § 1120; S13, § 1120; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 815; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.98] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         97 Acts, ch 170, § 52; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §21, 37