2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 47 - ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
47.7 - STATE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS.

        47.7  STATE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS.
         1.  The state commissioner of elections is designated the state
      registrar of voters, and shall regulate the preparation,
      preservation, and maintenance of voter registration records, the
      preparation of precinct election registers for all elections
      administered by the commissioner of any county, and the preparation
      of other data on voter registration and participation in elections
      which is requested and purchased at actual cost of preparation and
      production by a political party or any resident of this state.  The
      registrar shall maintain a log, which is a public record, showing all
      lists and reports which have been requested or generated or which are
      capable of being generated by existing programs of the data
      processing services of the registrar.  In the execution of the duties
      provided by this chapter, the state registrar of voters shall provide
      the maximum public access to the electoral process permitted by law.

         2. a.  On or before January 1, 2006, the state registrar of
      voters shall implement in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, a
      single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized
      statewide voter registration file defined, maintained, and
      administered at the state level that contains the name and
      registration information of every legally registered voter in the
      state and assigns a unique identifier to each legally registered
      voter in the state.  The state voter registration system shall be
      coordinated with other agency databases within the state, including,
      but not limited to, state department of transportation driver's
      license records, judicial records of convicted felons and persons
      declared incompetent to vote, and Iowa department of public health
      records of deceased persons.
         b.  On or after January 1, 2007, a county shall not establish
      or maintain a voter registration system separate from the state voter
      registration system.  Each county shall provide to the state
      registrar the names, voter registration information, and voting
      history of each registered voter in the county in the form required
      by the state registrar.
         c.  A state or local election official may obtain immediate
      electronic access to the information contained in the computerized
      voter registration file.  All voter registration information obtained
      by a local election official shall be electronically entered into the
      computerized voter registration file on an expedited basis at the
      time the information is provided to the local election official.  The
      state registrar shall provide such support as may be required to
      enable local election officials to electronically enter the
      information into the computerized voter registration file on an
      expedited basis.  The list generated from the computerized file shall
      serve as the official voter registration list for the conduct of all
      elections for federal office in the state.
         d.  The state registrar shall prescribe by rule the procedures
      for access to the state voter registration file, security
      requirements, and access protocols for adding, changing, or deleting
      information from the state voter registration file.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C77, 79, 81, § 47.7; 81 Acts, ch 34, § 10] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 176, § 1, 10; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 313; 94 Acts, ch
      1169, §47; 98 Acts, ch 1217, § 34; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §4, 37; 2006
      Acts, ch 1003, §1, 2
         Referred to in § 39.3