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

        52.33  ABSENTEE VOTING BY OPTICAL SCAN VOTING
      SYSTEM.
         1.  In any county in which the board of supervisors has adopted
      voting by means of an optical scan voting system, the commissioner
      shall also conduct absentee voting by use of such a system.  In any
      other county, the commissioner may with approval of the board of
      supervisors conduct absentee voting by use of an optical scan voting
      system.  All provisions of chapter 53 shall apply to such absentee
      voting, so far as applicable.  In counties where absentee voting is
      conducted by use of an optical scan voting system, the special
      precinct counting board shall, at the time required by chapter 53,
      prepare absentee ballots for tabulation in the manner prescribed by
      this chapter.
         2.  The absentee and special precinct board shall follow the
      process prescribed in section 52.37, subsection 1, in handling
      damaged or defective ballots and in counting write-in votes on
      optical scan ballots.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C77, 79, 81, § 52.33] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         97 Acts, ch 170, §62; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §58, 115; 2007 Acts, ch
      190, §9