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

        52.2  PURCHASE.
         1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the board of
      supervisors of a county may, by a majority vote, authorize, purchase,
      and order the use of voting machines or an optical scan voting system
      in any one or more voting precincts within the county until otherwise
      ordered by the board of supervisors.  Voting machines and an optical
      scan voting system may be used concurrently at the same precinct.
         2.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, for elections
      held on or after November 4, 2008, a county shall use an optical scan
      voting system only.  The requirements of the federal Help America
      Vote Act relating to disabled voters shall be met by a county through
      the use of electronic ballot marking devices that are compatible with
      an optical scan voting system.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1137-a8; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 905; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.2] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2004 Acts, ch 1083, §25, 37; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §6; 2008 Acts, ch
      1176, §3, 10
         Referred to in § 47.10, 331.383