§ Iowa Code § 48A.28Systematic confirmation program

48A.28 Systematic confirmation program.
1. Each commissioner shall conduct a systematic program that makes a reasonable effort
to remove from the official list of registered voters the names of registered voters who have
changed residence from their registration addresses.
2. a. A commissioner shall participate in the United States postal service national change
of address program, as provided in section 48A.27. The state voter registration commission
shall adopt rules establishing specific requirements for participation and use of the national
change of address program.
b. A commissioner participating in the national change of address program, in the first
quarter of each calendar year, shall send a notice and preaddressed, postage paid return card
by forwardable mail to each registered voter whose name was not reported by the national
change of address program and who has not voted in the most recent general election
and has not registered again or who has not reported a change to an existing registration.
Registered voters receiving such notice shall be marked inactive. The form and language
of the notice and return card shall be specified by the state voter registration commission
by rule. A registered voter shall not be sent a notice and return card under this subsection
more frequently than once in a four-year period. A registered voter shall not be sent a notice
and return card under this subsection if the registered voter was not eighteen years of age
on the date of the general election.
1083, §16, 37; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201; 2021 Acts, ch 12, §25, 26, 73; 2021 Acts, ch 147, §21, 54