Iowa Administrative Code

rule establishes the special election calendar in the event a vacancy occurs in the office of representative in Congress that must be filled by special election pursuant to Iowa Code section 69.14. 21.405(1) Notice of election. The governor shall provide not less than 76 days’ no…

separate declaration of eligibility form, the commissioner shall provide to each precinct a voter roster with space for each person who appears at the precinct to vote to print the following information: first and last name, address, date of birth, and, at the voter’s option, tel…

21.50(1) Inspection required. Before any building may be designated for use as a polling place, the county commissioner of elections or the commissioner’s designee shall inspect the building to determine whether it is accessible to persons with disabilities. 21.50(2) Frequency of…

required to be filed by candidates for the office of director in the regular school election shall be calculated from the number of registered voters in the district on May 1 of the year in which the election will be held. If May 1 falls on a day when the commissioner’s office is…

21.52(1) If a voter’s identification card is lost or damaged, the registered voter may request a new card in person at the commissioner’s office by showing identification, or by a written, signed request to the commissioner’s office. Upon receiving the request, the commissioner s…

11/30/11, effective 1/4/12.

supervisors or method of election. After the number of supervisors has been increased or decreased pursuant to Iowa Code section 331.203 or 331.204 or the method of electing supervisors has been changed from plan I or plan II to plan III since the last general election, the signa…

4348C, IAB 3/13/19, effective 4/17/19.

rule 721—21.3(49,48A), precinct election officials shall comply with the following requirements: 21.7(1) Precinct election officials shall inspect the identification documents presented by election day registrants to verify the following: a. The photograph shows the person who is…

the regular city election, city primary election, city runoff election, regular school election, and special elections. 21.75(1) Definition. “Voting center” means a location established by the commissioner for the purpose of providing ballots to all registered voters who are qual…

and maintain training materials for poll workers relating to voter identification and the use of electronic poll books. The training materials shall be available from the state commissioner’s website. This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section 48A.7A as amended by 2017 …

ballot if doing so interferes with other voters or the orderly operation of the polling location or violates any part of Iowa Code chapter 39A. The display shall only include the voter and the voter’s ballot. “Interferes,” for purposes of this rule, means loitering, congregating,…

registers to vote on election day, pursuant to Iowa Code section 48A.7A, an acknowledgment of the registration by nonforwardable mail. If the postal service returns the acknowledgment as undeliverable, the commissioner shall send a notice to the voter by forwardable mail. The not…

21.800(1) Petitions requesting imposition, rate change, use change, or repeal of local sales and services taxes shall be filed with the county board of supervisors. a. Each person signing the petition shall include the person’s address (including street number, if any) and the da…

one of the authorized local option taxes are submitted at a single election, all of the public measures shall be printed on the same ballot. The form of ballots to be used throughout the state of Iowa for the purpose of submitting questions pertaining to local option taxes shall …

21.802(1) Petitions requesting imposition of local vehicle taxes shall be filed with the county board of supervisors. a. Each person signing the petition shall add the person’s address (including street number, if any) and the date that the person signed the petition. b. Within 3…

or extend the revenue purpose statement specifying the uses of the funds received from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, which is also referred to as the “penny sales and services tax for schools,” the following ballot formats shall be used. 21.803(1) Ballot to pr…

21.804(1) For purposes of this rule, “qualified county” means a county with a population in excess of 400,000, a county with a population of at least 130,000 but not more than 131,000, or a county with a population of at least 60,000 but not more than 70,000, according to the 201…

funding. 21.810(1) Form of ballot. The ballot for the E911 referendum shall be in substantially the following form: (Insert letter to be assigned by the commissioner) SHALL THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC MEASURE BE ADOPTED? YES □ NO □ Enhanced 911 emergency telephone service shall be funde…

21.820(1) Petitions requesting elections to approve or disapprove the conduct of gambling games on an excursion gambling boat or at a gambling structure shall be filed with the county board of supervisors and shall be substantially in the form posted on the state commissioner’s w…

lake districts shall be conducted according to the following procedures. 21.830(1) Conduct of election. It is not mandatory for the county commissioner of elections to conduct elections for a benefited recreational lake district. However, if both a public measure and a candidate …

“Accredited independent test authority” means a person or agency that was formally recognized by the National Association of State Election Directors as competent to design and perform qualification tests for voting system hardware and software. “Accredited independent test autho…

22.10(1) Closed primary election. Voters may only cast votes for the candidates of one of the parties. 22.10(2) Offices. The following offices shall each have two candidates for each party. Candidate names shall be rotated as required by Iowa Code section 43.28. a. U.S. Senator b…

Rescinded IAB 10/8/08, effective 9/19/08.

defined appear in relation to an optical scan system used with the type of ballot defined in this rule. “Ballot” means the official document that includes all of the offices or public measures to be voted upon at a single election, whether they appear on one or more optical scan …

chapters 43 and 49 and by any relevant provisions of any statutes which specify the form of ballots for special elections, so far as possible within the constraints of the physical characteristics of the system. 22.102(1) The optical scan ballots may be printed on both sides of a…

PRECINCT COUNT SYSTEMS

22.11(1) Offices. In the test general election all of the above offices shall be included with the addition of candidates for lieutenant governor to be voted for jointly with each candidate for governor. Each political party and nonparty political organization shall have one cand…

the examiners shall complete a report showing their findings. The report shall include a checklist containing all statutory requirements for voting systems and shall indicate whether each requirement applies to the voting system being examined and whether the voting system is com…

provide the vendor with a copy of their report.

requirements prescribed by the Code of Iowa and the Iowa Administrative Code, the examiners shall deny certification to the equipment. The report of the board shall specify the reasons for the denial, as well as all areas in which the equipment complied with the requirements of t…

necessary modifications to the system and apply for reconsideration. Aspects of the equipment which were approved in the initial application do not need to be reexamined unless the examiners find that the modifications may have affected the ability of the equipment to comply in o…

written exceptions with the examiners within 30 days after issuance of the report. The examiners will issue a response to the exceptions within 30 days after filing of the exceptions. A vendor who is aggrieved or adversely affected by a denial after a ruling on exceptions may see…

anytime a change is made to a certified voting system, including a change in tabulation software, firmware, or hardware. 22.17(1) Notification of change. The vendor shall notify the examiners of any changes in a certified voting system. The vendor shall provide the examiners with…

22.18(1) Grounds for rescinding certification. Certification may be rescinded if it is found that: a. The equipment does not produce accurate results and reports as required for an election. b. Modifications have been made in a certified voting system that have not been approved …

examiners after April 9, 2003, shall meet Voting Systems Performance and Test Standards, as adopted by the Federal Election Commission April 30, 2002, or the 2005 Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines, as adopted by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in December 2005. The repo…

22.200(1) At least one tabulating device shall be provided at each precinct polling place for an election. If the tabulating device is delivered to the polling place before election day, it shall be secured against tampering or kept in a locked room. 22.200(2) The maintenance key…

22.201(1) All programming of tabulating devices shall be performed under the supervision of the commissioner. The devices shall be programmed to ensure that all votes will be counted in accordance with the laws of Iowa. Tabulating devices shall be programmed to return to the vote…