§ Iowa Code § 43.56Primary election recount provisions

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43.56 Primary election recount provisions.
Recounts of votes for primary elections shall be conducted following the procedure outlined
in section 50.48. However, if a recount is requested for an office for which no candidate has
received the required thirty-five percent to be nominated, the recount board shall consist of
the following persons:
1. One person chosen by the candidate requesting the recount, who shall be named in the
request.
2. One person chosen by the candidate who received the highest number of votes for the
nomination being recounted. However, if the candidate who requested the recount received
more votes than anyone else for the nomination, the candidate who received the second
highest number of votes shall designate this person to serve on the recount board.
3. A third person mutually agreeable to the board members designated by the candidates.
Subsection 2 stricken and former subsection 1 editorially internally redesignated

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