EAdIElection Administration Index

The statute explicitly requires board members to file statements of financial interest under section 68B.35, establishing a mandatory, statutory disclosure mechanism for conflict-of-interest accountability. This is a codified institutional safeguard that applies to all commissioners regardless of current administration.

The statute codifies a right to judicial review by express reference to chapter 17A (Iowa's Administrative Procedure Act), providing a clear mechanism for accountability. However, this section provides only skeletal authorization; the actual definition of standing, timeline, and venue provisions depends entirely on external reference to chapter 17A rather than codification within the election-specific statute. The criterion asks whether these procedural elements are 'defined'—which requires checking whether ch. 17A itself provides them. Section 68B.33 does not independently define these elements, making compliance dependent on the referenced statute's content.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The redistricting advisory commission is grounded in statute (Iowa Code ch. 42), not the Iowa Constitution, satisfying the ordinal score of 1 rather than the constitutional grounding that would yield 2. The statutory text establishes the commission's existence and core mandate clearly, but COMM.1 asks specifically whether grounding is constitutional rather than statutory alone.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 46.15 addresses appointment of judicial officers (supreme court, court of appeals, district court judges) from nominees generated by judicial nominating commissions. It does not establish the composition, appointment mechanism, or governance structure of election commissions or any body responsible for election administration. The section is about judicial appointments, not election administration institutional structure, and therefore does not satisfy COMM.2 for election administration.

Iowa Code § 46.2 establishes fixed six-year terms for judicial nominating commissioners with explicit staggered cycles (no more than three terms expiring within the same two-year period), all grounded in statute. The statute also defines removal eligibility limits (subsection 4) and bars from office (subsection 5), providing statutory protection against arbitrary removal and single-cycle turnover.

Iowa Code § 49.15(2)(a) statutorily requires that election board panels include members of each political party, with names designated by county party chairpersons. This creates a clear statutory mandate for political balance in the composition of precinct election boards, protecting against single-party capture through explicit multipartisan inclusion requirements.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 68A.304 addresses campaign property disclosure and disposition rules for candidate committees, not the election authority's budget structure. It contains no provisions regarding how the Iowa State Election Board or any election administration agency is funded, whether funds are set as a separate line item, or protections against mid-cycle reallocation. This section does not engage with institutional funding independence.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 43.3 addresses the offices subject to primary election nomination procedures and does not contain any language regarding election infrastructure budgets, funding cycles, or financial appropriations. The section is procedurally focused on which candidates must be nominated via primary election, and therefore does not satisfy the multi-year funding cycle criterion.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section regulates independent expenditures in campaign finance and contains a foreign national prohibition on making independent expenditures (§68A.404(2)(c)). However, FUND.3 asks whether foreign-source funding of the election authority itself and its vendors is prohibited. This statute addresses candidate and ballot issue advocacy funding, not the funding sources for the election administration agency. The section does not govern how the election board or its vendors are funded.

The statute explicitly protects the board's career staff (all employees except executive director and legal counsel) through mandatory merit-system employment under Iowa Code chapter 8A, subchapter IV. This is a statutory civil-service protection that shields professional staff from political patronage and ensures continuity independent of executive turnover.

The statute mandates that the commissioner conduct training for all election personnel (precinct officials and polling place workers) not later than the day before each election, and requires the state commissioner to adopt rules implementing instruction. Additionally, subsection 3 specifies substantive content requirements (identity verification criteria consistent with voting rights and nondiscrimination law). Frequency (before each election) and personnel scope are clearly defined by statute.

No matching sections in corpus.

Iowa Code § 52.5 codifies the certification process in statute by requiring the state commissioner to adopt rules governing testing and examination, prescribing methods and performance standards, establishing federal compliance benchmarks, and defining recertification and decertification procedures. The statute explicitly mandates timeline requirements (seven days for notification), identifies evaluators (board of examiners), and requires documented reports on system capacity, accuracy, and mechanical fitness before approval.

The statute requires rules to codify recertification triggers after equipment/program modifications and for non-compliance with performance standards, satisfying material-update and defect-discovery triggers. However, no fixed-schedule recertification requirement is codified in the statute itself—only a delegation to the state commissioner to adopt rules. The criterion demands codified triggers, and while two of three are addressed by rule-making authority, the fixed-schedule element and the rules themselves remain administrative discretion rather than statutory mandate.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 48A.5 addresses voter qualifications and registration requirements only. It contains no statutory language regarding certification, decertification grounds, procedures for revoking certification, or vendor oversight. This section does not engage the criterion at all.