2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.99 - WRITING NAME ON BALLOT.

        49.99  WRITING NAME ON BALLOT.
         1.  The voter may also write on the line provided for write-in
      votes the name of any person for whom the voter desires to vote and
      mark the voting target opposite the name.  If the voter is using a
      voting system other than an optical scan voting system, as defined in
      section 52.1, the writing of the name shall constitute a valid vote
      for the person whose name has been written on the ballot without
      regard to whether the voter has made a mark opposite the name.
      However, when a write-in vote is cast using an optical scan voting
      system, the ballot must also be marked in the corresponding space in
      order to be counted.  Marking the voting target opposite a write-in
      line without writing a name on the line shall not affect the validity
      of the remainder of the ballot.
         2.  If a voter writes the name of a person more than once in the
      proper places on a ballot for an office to which more than one person
      is to be elected, all but one of those votes for that person for that
      office are void and shall not be counted.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C97, § 1119; S13, § 1119; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 816; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.99] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1224, § 13; 90 Acts, ch 1238, § 22; 97 Acts, ch 170, §
      53; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §26; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §36