2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 51 - DOUBLE ELECTION BOARDS
51.7 - DUTIES OF DOUBLE BOARDS.

        51.7  DUTIES OF DOUBLE BOARDS.
         The counting boards shall proceed to the respective voting places
      to which they have been appointed at such time as the commissioner
      may direct, and shall take charge of the ballot box containing the
      ballots already cast in that precinct.  The counting board shall
      retire to a partitioned space or room provided for that purpose and
      there proceed to count and tabulate the ballots as it shall find them
      deposited in the ballot box.  The receiving board shall continue to
      receive the votes of electors in the other box provided, until such
      time as the counting board shall have finished counting and
      tabulating the ballots cast in the first ballot box.  The two boards
      shall then exchange the first box for the second box and so continue
      until they have counted and tabulated all the votes cast on that
      election day.  When the hour arrives for closing the polls, the
      receiving board shall certify to all matters pertaining to casting of
      ballots and shall then unite with the counting board in the counting
      of ballots.  The precinct election officials shall then divide the
      ballots not counted and each group of officials shall proceed to
      canvass their portion of the same.  When the canvass has been
      completed the officials shall report the result of their canvass in
      the manner provided by section 50.11.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 893; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
      75, 77, 79, 81, § 51.7] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1119, §23
         Referred to in § 49.25
         Tally list, § 50.16