2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 53 - ABSENT VOTERS
53.41 - RECORDS BY COMMISSIONER -- EXCESS REQUESTS OR BALLOTS.

        53.41  RECORDS BY COMMISSIONER -- EXCESS REQUESTS OR
      BALLOTS.
         1.  The commissioner of each county shall establish and maintain a
      record of all requests for ballots which are made, and of all ballots
      transmitted, and the manner of transmittal, from and received in the
      commissioner's office under the provisions of this division.
         2.  If more than one request for absent voter's ballot for a
      particular election is made to the commissioner before the ballots
      are ready to mail by or on behalf of a voter in the armed forces of
      the United States, the last request received shall be honored, except
      that if one of the requests is made by the voter, the request of the
      voter shall be honored in preference to a request made on the voter's
      behalf by another.
         3.  Not more than one ballot shall be transmitted by the
      commissioner to any voter for a particular election unless after the
      ballot has been mailed the voter reports a change in the address to
      which the ballot should be sent.  A ballot shall be mailed using a
      serial number that indicates that this is a replacement sent to an
      updated address.  The original ballot shall be counted only if the
      replacement ballot does not arrive.  If the commissioner receives
      more than one absent voter's ballot, provided for by this division,
      from or purporting to be from any one voter for a particular
      election, all of the ballots so received from or purporting to be
      from such voter are void, and the commissioner shall not deliver any
      of the ballots to the precinct election officials, but shall retain
      them in the commissioner's office, and preserve them for the period
      and under the conditions provided for in sections 50.12 through 50.15
      and section 50.19.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 53.41] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §56; 2007 Acts, ch 59, §33, 38
         Referred to in § 48A.5