2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 50 - CANVASS OF VOTES
50.15A - UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF VOTING -- GENERAL ELECTION ONLY.

        50.15A  UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF VOTING -- GENERAL
      ELECTION ONLY.
         1.  In order to provide the public with an early source of
      election results before the official canvass of votes, the state
      commissioner of elections, in cooperation with the commissioners of
      elections, shall conduct an unofficial canvass of election results
      following the closing of the polls on the day of a general election.
      The unofficial canvass shall report election results for national
      offices, statewide offices, the office of state representative, the
      office of state senator, and other offices or public measures at the
      discretion of the state commissioner of elections.  The unofficial
      canvass shall also report the total number of ballots cast at the
      general election.
         2. a.  After the polls close on election day, the commissioner
      of elections shall periodically provide election results to the state
      commissioner of elections as the precincts in the county report
      election results to the commissioner pursuant to section 50.11.  If
      the commissioner determines that all precincts will not report
      election results before the office is closed, the commissioner shall
      report the most complete results available prior to leaving the
      office at the time the office is closed as provided in section 50.11.
      The commissioner shall specify the number of precincts included in
      the report to the state commissioner of elections.
         b.  The state commissioner of elections shall tabulate
      unofficial election results as the results are received from the
      commissioners of elections and shall periodically make the reports of
      the results available to the public.
         3.  Before the day of the general election, the state commissioner
      of elections shall provide a form and instructions for reporting
      unofficial election results pursuant to this section.  

         2008 Acts, ch 1115, §102; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §38