2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 52 - VOTING SYSTEMS
52.1 - VOTING SYSTEMS -- DEFINITIONS.

        52.1  VOTING SYSTEMS -- DEFINITIONS.
         1.  At all elections conducted under chapter 49, and at any other
      election unless the commissioner directs otherwise pursuant to
      section 49.26, votes shall be cast, registered, recorded, and counted
      by means of optical scan voting systems, in accordance with this
      chapter.
         2.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
      requires:
         a.  "Automatic tabulating equipment" means apparatus,
      including but not limited to electronic data processing machines,
      that are utilized to ascertain the manner in which optical scan
      ballots have been marked by voters or by electronic ballot marking
      devices, and count the votes marked on the ballots.
         b.  "Ballot" includes paper ballots designed to be read by
      automatic tabulating equipment.  In appropriate contexts,
      "ballot" also includes conventional paper ballots.
         c.  "Ballot marking device" means a pen, pencil, or similar
      writing tool, or an electronic device, all designed for use in
      marking an optical scan ballot, and so designed or fabricated that
      the mark it leaves may be detected and the vote so cast counted by
      automatic tabulating equipment.
         d.  "Optical scan ballot" means a printed ballot designed to
      be marked by a voter with a ballot marking device.
         e.  "Optical scan voting system" means a system employing
      paper ballots under which votes are cast by voters by marking paper
      ballots with a ballot marking device and thereafter counted by use of
      automatic tabulating equipment.
         f.  "Program" means the written record of the set of
      instructions defining the operations to be performed by a computer in
      examining, counting, tabulating, and printing votes.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1137-a7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 904; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1224, § 17, 18; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §50, 51, 115; 2004
      Acts, ch 1083, §24, 37; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §4, 5; 2009 Acts, ch 57,
      §46, 47
         Referred to in § 49.99