2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 43 - PARTISAN NOMINATIONS == PRIMARY ELECTION
43.16 - RETURN OF PAPERS, ADDITIONS NOT ALLOWED.

        43.16  RETURN OF PAPERS, ADDITIONS NOT ALLOWED.
         After a nomination paper has been filed, it shall not be returned
      to the person who has filed the paper, nor shall any signature or
      other information be added to the nomination paper.
         A person who has filed nomination petitions with the state
      commissioner may withdraw as a candidate not later than the
      seventy-sixth day before the primary election by notifying the state
      commissioner in writing.
         A person who has filed nomination papers with the commissioner may
      withdraw as a candidate not later than the sixty-seventh day before
      the primary election by notifying the commissioner in writing.
         The name of a candidate who has withdrawn or died at a time in
      accordance with this section shall be omitted from the certificate
      furnished by the state commissioner under section 43.22 and omitted
      from the primary election ballot.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1087-a10; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 542; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.16] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1224, § 1; 89 Acts, ch 136, § 7
         Withdrawal of candidacy, § 43.76, 44.9