2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 50 - CANVASS OF VOTES
50.22 - SPECIAL PRECINCT BOARD TO DETERMINE CHALLENGES AND CANVASS ABSENTEE BALLOTS.

        50.22  SPECIAL PRECINCT BOARD TO DETERMINE CHALLENGES
      AND CANVASS ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
         Upon being reconvened, the special precinct election board shall
      review the information upon the envelopes bearing the provisional
      ballots, and all evidence submitted in support of or opposition to
      the right of each challenged person to vote in the election.  The
      board may divide itself into panels of not less than three members
      each in order to hear and determine two or more challenges
      simultaneously, but each panel shall meet the requirements of section
      49.12 as regards political party affiliation of the members of each
      panel.
         The decision to count or reject each ballot shall be made upon the
      basis of the information given on the envelope containing the
      provisional ballot, the evidence concerning the challenge, the
      registration and the returned receipts of registration.
         If a provisional ballot is rejected, the person casting the ballot
      shall be notified by the commissioner within ten days of the reason
      for the rejection, on the form prescribed by the state commissioner
      pursuant to section 53.25, and the envelope containing the
      provisional ballot shall be preserved unopened and disposed of in the
      same manner as spoiled ballots.  The provisional ballots which are
      accepted shall be counted in the manner prescribed by section 53.23,
      subsection 5.  The commissioner shall make public the number of
      provisional ballots rejected and not counted, at the time of the
      canvass of the election.
         The special precinct board shall also canvass any absentee ballots
      which were received after the polls closed in accordance with section
      53.17.  If necessary, they shall reconvene again on the day of the
      canvass by the board of supervisors to canvass any absentee ballots
      which were timely received.  The special precinct board shall submit
      their tally list to the supervisors before the conclusion of the
      canvass by the board.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C77, 79, 81, § 50.22] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         87 Acts, ch 221, § 24; 88 Acts, ch 1119, § 20; 89 Acts, ch 136,
      §47, 48; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §53; 2005 Acts, ch 19, §22; 2009 Acts, ch
      57, §39
         Referred to in § 43.46, 53.31