§ Iowa Code § 44.11Vacancies filled

44.11 Vacancies filled.
If a candidate named under this chapter withdraws or dies before the deadline established
in section 44.9, declines a nomination, or if a certificate of nomination is held insufficient or
inoperative by the officer with whom it is required to be filed, or in case any objection made
to a certificate of nomination, or to the eligibility of any candidate named in the certificate, is
sustained by the board appointed to determine such questions, the vacancy or vacancies may
be filled by the convention, or caucus, or in such manner as such convention or caucus has
previously provided. The vacancy or vacancies shall be filled not less than seventy-six days
before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the state commissioner,
not less than sixty-nine days before the election in the case of nominations required to be
filed with the commissioner, not less than forty-two days before the election in the case of
nominations required to be filed in the office of the school board secretary, and not less than
forty-two days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the
commissioner for city elections.
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