Amendment H-1168 to HF 470
Relating to the conduct of elections, including provisions related to absentee ballots, recounts, and contested gubernatorial elections and impeachments, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Never voted on
Filed March 30, 2023 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: “Section
- Section 43.38, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows: 43.38 Voter confined to party ticket. The elector shall be allowed to vote for candidates for nomination on the ballot of the party with which the elector is has been registered as affiliated for the one hundred twenty days immediately preceding the primary election , and shall receive no other ballot. The voter shall mark and return the ballot in the manner provided in section 49.84 . Sec. ___. Section 43.43, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows: 43.43 Voter’s declaration of eligibility. Each person voting at a primary election shall sign a declaration of eligibility which shall be in substantially the following form: I do solemnly swear or affirm that I am a resident of the ........... precinct, ......... ward or township, city of ...... , county of ...... , Iowa. I am a registered voter. I have not voted and will not vote in any other precinct in this election. I am affiliated with the ...... party. If my current voter registration record indicates another party affiliation or no party affiliation, I swear or affirm that I have in good faith changed my previously declared party affiliation, or declared my party affiliation, not later than one hundred twenty days before this primary election, and now desire to be a member of the party indicated above. .................................... Signature of voter .................................... Address (........).......................... Telephone (optional) Approved: .................................... Election board member ...................... Date”
- Page 1, after line 11 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 43.91, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows: 43.91 Voter at caucus —— qualifications. Any person voting at a precinct caucus must be a person who is or will by the date of the next general election become an eligible elector, who has not already participated in the caucus of any political party within the same year, and who is a resident of the precinct , and who has been a registered member of the political party holding the precinct caucus for the one hundred twenty days immediately preceding the precinct caucus . A list of the names and addresses of each person to whom a ballot was delivered or who was allowed to vote in each precinct caucus shall be prepared by the caucus chairperson and secretary who shall certify such list to the commissioner at the same time as the names of those elected as delegates and party committee members are so certified.”
- Page 15, after line 14 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 53.2, subsection 6, Code 2023, is amended by striking the subsection.”
- Page 24, after line 28 by inserting: “Sec. ___. REPEAL. Section 43.42, Code 2023, is repealed.”
- Title page, line 2, after “related to” by inserting “primary elections,”
- By renumbering as necessary.