§ Iowa Code § 53.25Rejecting ballot

53.25 Rejecting ballot.
1. a. If the absentee voter’s affidavit lacks the voter’s signature, if the applicant is not a
duly registered voter on election day in the precinct where the absentee ballot was cast, if
the envelope marked with the affidavit contains more than one ballot of any one kind, or if
the voter has voted in person, such vote shall be rejected by the absentee and special voters
precinct board. If the affidavit envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit is open,
or has been opened and resealed, or if the ballot is not enclosed in such envelope, and an
affidavit envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit with the same serial number
and marked “Replacement ballot” is not attached as provided in section 53.18, the ballot shall
be rejected by the absentee and special voters precinct board.
b. If a voter casts a provisional ballot pursuant to section 49.78, subsection 7, and the voter
has failed to establish the voter’s identity at the commissioner’s office, the provisional ballot
shall be rejected by the absentee and special voters precinct board.
2. If the absentee or provisional ballot is rejected prior to the opening of the affidavit
envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit, the voter casting the ballot shall be
notified by a precinct election official by the time the canvass is completed of the reason for
the rejection on a form prescribed by the state commissioner of elections.
[SS15, §1137-j; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §951; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §53.25]
§24, 32; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §33, 35, 36