2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 50 - CANVASS OF VOTES
50.19 - PRESERVATION AND DESTRUCTION OF BOOKS.

        50.19  PRESERVATION AND DESTRUCTION OF BOOKS.
         The commissioner may destroy precinct election registers, the
      declarations of eligibility signed by voters, and other material
      pertaining to any election in which federal offices are not on the
      ballot, except the tally lists which have not been electronically
      recorded, six months after the election if a contest is not pending.
      If a contest is pending all election materials shall be preserved
      until final determination of the contest.  Before destroying the
      election registers and declarations of eligibility, the commissioner
      shall prepare records as necessary to permit compliance with chapter
      48A, subchapter V.  Nomination papers for primary election candidates
      for state and county offices shall be destroyed ten days before the
      general election, if a contest is not pending.
         Material pertaining to elections for federal offices, including
      ballots, precinct election registers, declarations of eligibility
      signed by voters, documents relating to absentee ballots, and
      challenges of voters, shall be preserved for twenty-two months after
      the election.  If a contest is not pending the materials may be
      destroyed at the end of the retention period.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 268; R60, § 333, 503, 1131; C73, § 503, 629; C97, § 1145;
      C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 858; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75,
      77, 79, 81, § 50.19] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §46; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §52; 98 Acts, ch 1119, §
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         Referred to in § 50.12, 53.30, 53.40, 53.41