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50.22 Special precinct board to determine challenges and canvass absentee ballots.
1. Upon being reconvened, the special precinct election board shall review the
information upon the envelopes bearing the provisional ballots, and all evidence submitted
in support of or opposition to the right of each challenged person to vote in the election.
The board may divide itself into panels of not less than three members each in order to
hear and determine two or more challenges simultaneously, but each panel shall meet the
requirements of section 49.12 as regards political party affiliation of the members of each
panel.
2. The decision to count or reject each ballot shall be made upon the basis of the
information given on the envelope containing the provisional ballot, the evidence concerning
the challenge, the registration and the returned receipts of registration. Ballots submitted to
the board pursuant to section 49.78 or 49.81 that are not cured by the deadline provided in
section 49.81, subsection 6, shall be rejected.
3. If a provisional ballot is rejected, the person casting the ballot shall be notified by the
commissioner within ten days of the reason for the rejection, on the form prescribed by the
state commissioner pursuant to section 53.25, and the envelope containing the provisional
ballot shall be preserved unopened and disposed of in the same manner as spoiled ballots.
The provisional ballots which are accepted shall be counted in the manner prescribed by
section 53.23, subsection 5. The commissioner shall make public the number of provisional
ballots rejected and not counted, at the time of the canvass of the election.
4. The special precinct board shall also canvass any absentee ballots which were received
after the polls closed in accordance with section 53.17. If necessary, they shall reconvene
again on the day of the canvass by the board of supervisors to canvass any absentee ballots
which were timely received. The special precinct board shall submit their tally list to the
supervisors before the conclusion of the canvass by the board.
Subsection 2 amended