2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 48A - VOTER REGISTRATION
48A.6 - DISQUALIFIED ELECTORS.

        48A.6  DISQUALIFIED ELECTORS.
         The following persons are disqualified from registering to vote
      and from voting:
         1.  A person who has been convicted of a felony as defined in
      section 701.7, or convicted of an offense classified as a felony
      under federal law.  If the person's rights are later restored by the
      governor, or by the president of the United States, the person may
      register to vote.
         2.  A person who is incompetent to vote.  Certification by the
      clerk of the district court that any such person has been found no
      longer incompetent by a court shall qualify such person to again be
      an elector, subject to the other provisions of this chapter.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         94 Acts, ch 1169, §7; 98 Acts, ch 1185, § 2; 2002 Acts, ch 1134,
      §18, 115
         Referred to in § 9E.3, 53.37
         Proceedings regarding competency to vote, see §222.16, 229.27,
      633.556
         Restoration of rights by governor, see chapter 914

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