2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 53 - ABSENT VOTERS
53.21 - REPLACEMENT OF LOST OR SPOILED ABSENTEE BALLOTS.

        53.21  REPLACEMENT OF LOST OR SPOILED ABSENTEE
      BALLOTS.
         1.  A voter who has requested an absentee ballot may obtain a
      replacement ballot if the voter declares that the original ballot was
      lost or did not arrive.  The commissioner upon receipt of a written
      or oral request for a replacement ballot shall provide a duplicate
      ballot.  The same serial number that was assigned to the records of
      the original absentee ballot request shall be used on the envelopes
      and records of the replacement ballot.
         2. a.  The commissioner shall include with the replacement
      ballot two copies of a statement in substantially the following form:


         The absentee ballot which I requested on ........(date) has been
      lost or was never received.  If I find this absentee ballot I will
      return it, unvoted, to the commissioner.
                                        .........
                                        (Signature of voter)
                                        .........
                                        (Date)


         b.  The voter shall enclose one copy of the above statement in
      the return envelope with the affidavit envelope and retain a copy for
      the voter's records.

         3. a.  A voter who spoils an absentee ballot may return it to
      the commissioner.  The outside of the return envelope shall be marked
      "SPOILED BALLOT".  The commissioner shall replace the ballot in the
      manner provided in this section for lost ballots.
         b.  An absentee ballot returned to the commissioner without a
      designation that the ballot was spoiled shall not be replaced.  

         89 Acts, ch 136, §53; 93 Acts, ch 143, § 33; 2007 Acts, ch 215,
      §231; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §67
         Referred to in § 53.49