2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 53 - ABSENT VOTERS
53.11 - SATELLITE ABSENTEE VOTING STATIONS.

        53.11  SATELLITE ABSENTEE VOTING STATIONS.
         1. a.  Satellite absentee voting stations may be established
      throughout the cities and county at the direction of the commissioner
      and shall be established upon receipt of a petition signed by not
      less than one hundred eligible electors requesting that a satellite
      absentee voting station be established at a location to be described
      on the petition.  However, if a special election is scheduled in the
      county on a date that falls between the date of the regular city
      election and the date of the city runoff election, the commissioner
      is not required to establish a satellite absentee voting station for
      the city runoff election.
         b.  A satellite absentee voting station established by
      petition must be open at least one day for a minimum of six hours.  A
      satellite absentee voting station established at the direction of the
      commissioner or by petition may remain open until 5:00 p.m. on the
      day before the election.
         2.  A petition requesting a satellite absentee voting station must
      be filed by the following deadlines:
         a.  For a primary or general election, no later than 5:00 p.m.
      on the forty-seventh day before the election.
         b.  For the regular city election or a city primary election,
      no later than 5:00 p.m. on the thirtieth day before the election.
         c.  For a city runoff election, no later than 5:00 p.m. on the
      twenty-first day before the election.
         d.  For the regular school election, no later than 5:00 p.m.
      on the thirtieth day before the election.
         e.  For a special election, no later than thirty-two days
      before the special election.
         3.  Procedures for absentee voting at satellite absentee voting
      stations shall be the same as specified in section 53.10 for voting
      at the commissioner's office.  Additional procedures shall be
      prescribed by rule by the state commissioner.
         4.  During the hours when absentee ballots are available at a
      satellite absentee voting station, electioneering shall not be
      allowed within the sight or hearing of voters at the satellite
      absentee voting station.
         5.  At least seven days before the date that absentee ballots will
      be available at a satellite absentee voting station, the commissioner
      shall notify the county chairperson of each political party of the
      date, time, and place that the satellite absentee voting station will
      be in operation in the county, so that the chairpersons may appoint
      observers to be present at the station during the hours absentee
      ballots are available.  No more than two observers from each
      political party shall be present at any one satellite absentee voting
      station.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [SS15, § 1137-e; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 937; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 53.11] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         84 Acts, ch 1291, § 13; 91 Acts, ch 129, §19; 93 Acts, ch 143, §
      32; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §65; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 70, 71; 2002 Acts, ch
      1134, §64--66, 115; 2005 Acts, ch 72, §2; 2007 Acts, ch 112, §1--3;
      2008 Acts, ch 1191, §115; 2009 Acts, ch 131, §1
         Referred to in § 49.63, 53.7, 53.8, 53.22, 53.49, 68A.406