2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 52 - VOTING SYSTEMS
52.26 - AUTHORIZED OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM.

        52.26  AUTHORIZED OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM.
         1.  Every optical scan voting system approved by the state board
      of examiners for voting systems shall:
         a.  Provide for voting in secrecy, except as to persons
      entitled by sections 49.90 and 49.91 to assistance.  The state board
      of examiners for voting systems shall determine whether the systems'
      voting booths provide for voting in secrecy.
         b.  Permit each voter to vote at any election for any
      candidate for each office and upon each public question with respect
      to which the voter is entitled by law to vote, while preventing the
      voter from voting more than once upon any public question or casting
      more votes for any office than there are persons to be elected to
      that office.
         c.  Permit a voter to vote for any person for any office on
      the ballot at that election, whether or not the person's name is
      printed on the ballot.
         d.  Be so constructed or designed that, when voting in a
      primary election in which candidates are nominated by political
      parties, a voter is limited to the candidates for the nominations of
      the political party with which that voter is affiliated.
         e.  Be so constructed or designed that in presidential
      elections the voter casts a vote for the presidential electors of any
      party or political organization by a single mark made opposite the
      name of the candidates of that party or organization for the offices
      of both president and vice president of the United States, and so
      that the voter is also provided the opportunity to write in the name
      of any person for whom the voter desires to vote for president or
      vice president of the United States.
         f.  Be so constructed or designed as to permit voting for
      candidates for nomination or election of at least seven different
      political parties or organizations, and to permit voting for all of
      the candidates of any one political party or organization by a single
      mark, at any one election.
         2.  A punch card voting system shall not be approved for use.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C77, 79, 81, § 52.26] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         90 Acts, ch 1007, §2; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §53, 115; 2007 Acts, ch
      190, §33, 34