§ Iowa Code § 49.15Commissioner to draw up election board panel

49.15 Commissioner to draw up election board panel.
1. Not less than twenty days before each primary election, the commissioner shall draw
up for each precinct an election board panel from which members of the precinct election
board shall be appointed for each election held in the precinct during the ensuing two years.
2. a. Each panel shall include members of each of the political parties referred to in
section 49.13, whose names may be designated by the county chairpersons of each of these
political parties not less than thirty days prior to each primary election. The commissioner
may place on the election board panel names of persons known by the commissioner to be
members of these political parties, if the respective county chairpersons fail to designate a
sufficient number of names, and may also add names of persons, whether or not they are
members of either of these political parties, who have advised the commissioner they are
willing to serve on the election board.
b. The commissioner may also place on the election board panel names of persons whom
either the city council of a city or a school board has advised the commissioner at least thirty
days before each primary election are willing to serve without pay at elections conducted for
that school district or city, as the case may be, during the tenure of the election board panel
on which these names are included.
3. In drawing up precinct election board panels, the commissioner may use student
precinct election board members appointed pursuant to section 49.13, subsection 6.