3E Relating to elections

ARTICLE 1 - ELECTIONS AND VOTING

Prohibiting postsecondary residential housing list use and dissemination by county auditors and the secretary of state; prohibiting certain compensation for voter registration application solicitation, collection or acceptance and prohibiting compensation deprivation or reduction for failure to solicit or accept a minimum voter registration applications; modifying certain signature requirements on registration applications for individuals unable to write; modifying the same day voter registration oath recording requirements; counting rejected absentee and mail ballots for registration purposes; modifying return envelope design; requiring absentee voting in person county auditor electronic ballot marker availability for disabled individual accessibility, permitting any county governing body to authorize an absentee ballot board and modifying absentee ballot board duties, clarifying affidavits and petitions filing for county and federal offices, requiring affidavits and petitions for state offices to be filed with the secretary of state or with the county auditor of residence and requiring other affidavits to be submitted by mail or by hand by a certain date and time; allowing certain absent candidates to submit affidavits of candidacy by facsimile (FAX) device or electronic transmission and specifying requirements and requiring affidavits of candidacy and nominating petitions to be submitted by mail or by hand by a certain date and time, modifying write in candidate requirements; modifying the distance for the location of polling places from precinct boundaries; modifying mail balloting and allowing auditors and clerks to appoint election judges to examine and mark return envelopes; clarifying polling place lingering restrictions; requiring residency proof for appointed challengers seeking admission to polling places under certain conditions; providing for the cancellation of special elections by municipalities, requiring municipal clerk and school district clerk county auditor special election cancellation written notice by a certain time prior to election, requiring school district clerk commissioner of education special election cancellation written notice by a certain time prior to election; changing the postelection review official definition to include county auditors and auditor designated municipal clerks; clarifying additional review conditions; requiring filing officers to restrict public access to personal addresses of individuals making certain larger contributions under certain conditions; prescribing a misdemeanor penalty for candidate failure to file a certification; repealing absentee voting general eligibility county board experimental procedures and absentee ballot boards absentee voter list

ARTICLE 2 - TECHNICAL MODIFICATIONS

Relating to elections; clarifying certain procedures and terminology; modifying soil and water conservation district ballot content requirements; changing registration card to registration application; modifying county auditor change of registration provisions; modifying absentee ballot provisions; modifying proof of eligibility for candidates for judicial office, county attorney and county sheriff; modifying school district clerk ballot preparation provisions; modifying school district combined polling places provisions; modifying certain duties of the commissioner of public safety relating to verifying social security number voter information
(Ch. 244, 2008)