§ Iowa Code § 53.41Records by commissioner — excess requests or ballots

53.41 Records by commissioner — excess requests or ballots.
1. The commissioner of each county shall establish and maintain a record of all requests
for ballots which are made, and of all ballots transmitted, and the manner of transmittal, from
and received in the commissioner’s office under the provisions of this subchapter.
2. If more than one request for absent voter’s ballot for a particular election is made to
the commissioner before the ballots are ready to mail by or on behalf of a voter in the armed
forces of the United States, the last request received shall be honored, except that if one of
the requests is made by the voter, the request of the voter shall be honored in preference to a
request made on the voter’s behalf by another.
3. Not more than one ballot shall be transmitted by the commissioner to any voter for a
particular election unless after the ballot has been mailed the voter reports a change in the
address to which the ballot should be sent. A ballot shall be mailed using a serial number
that indicates that this is a replacement sent to an updated address. The original ballot shall
be counted only if the replacement ballot does not arrive. If the commissioner receives more
than one absent voter’s ballot, provided for by this subchapter, from or purporting to be from
any one voter for a particular election, all of the ballots so received from or purporting to
be from such voter are void, and the commissioner shall not deliver any of the ballots to the
precinct election officials, but shall retain them in the commissioner’s office, and preserve
them for the period and under the conditions provided for in sections 50.12, 50.13, 50.15, and
50.19.
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