2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 54 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
54.5 - PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES.

        54.5  PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES.
         The names of the candidates for president and vice president of a
      political party as defined in the law relating to primary elections,
      shall, by five o'clock p.m. on the eighty-first day before the
      election, be certified to the state commissioner by the chairperson
      and secretary of the state central committee of the party.
         However, if the national nominating convention of a political
      party adjourns later than eighty-nine days before the general
      election the certificate showing the names of that party's candidates
      for president and vice president shall be filed within five days
      after adjournment.
         As an alternative to the certificate by the state central
      committee, the certificate of nomination issued by the political
      party's national nominating convention may be used to certify the
      names of the party's candidates for president and vice president.  If
      certificates of nomination are received from both the state central
      committee and the national nominating convention of a political
      party, and there are differences between the two certificates, the
      certificate filed by the state central committee shall prevail.
         The state central committee shall also file a list of the names
      and addresses of the party's presidential electors, one from each
      congressional district and two from the state at large, not later
      than five o'clock p.m. on the eighty-first day before the general
      election.
         If a candidate for the office of president or vice president of
      the United States withdraws, dies, or is otherwise removed from the
      ballot before the general election, another candidate may be
      substituted.  The substitution shall be made by the state central
      committee of the political party or by the governing committee of the
      national party.  If there are differences, the substitution made by
      the state central committee shall prevail.  A nonparty political
      organization which has filed the names of party officers and central
      committee members with the secretary of state before the close of the
      filing period for the general election pursuant to section 44.17 may
      also make substitutions.  A substitution must be filed no later than
      seventy-four days before the election.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 967; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
      75, 77, 79, 81, § 54.5; 81 Acts, ch 34, § 38] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §58; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 74
         "Political party" defined, § 43.2