52.1 Voting systems — definitions.
1. At all elections conducted under chapter 49, and at any other election unless the commissioner directs otherwise pursuant to section 49.26, votes shall be cast, registered, recorded, and counted by means of optical scan voting systems, in accordance with this chapter.
2. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. “Automatic tabulating equipment” means apparatus, including but not limited to electronic data processing machines, that are utilized to ascertain the manner in which optical scan ballots have been marked by voters or by electronic ballot marking devices, and count the votes marked on the ballots.
b. “Ballot” includes paper ballots designed to be read by automatic tabulating equipment. In appropriate contexts, “ballot” also includes conventional paper ballots.
c. “Ballot marking device” means a pen, pencil, or similar writing tool, or an electronic device, all designed for use in marking an optical scan ballot, and so designed or fabricated that the mark it leaves may be detected and the vote so cast counted by automatic tabulating equipment.
d. “Optical scan ballot” means a printed ballot designed to be marked by a voter with a ballot marking device.
e. “Optical scan voting system” means a system employing paper ballots under which votes are cast by voters by marking paper ballots with a ballot marking device and thereafter counted by use of automatic tabulating equipment.
f. “Program” means the written record of the set of instructions defining the operations to be performed by a computer in examining, counting, tabulating, and printing votes.
[S13, §1137-a7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §904; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §52.1]
86 Acts, ch 1224, §17, 18; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §50, 51, 115; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §24, 37; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §4, 5; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §46, 47
Referred to in §49.99
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Section 52.1 - Voting systems — definitions.
Section 52.2 - Optical scan voting system required.
Section 52.3 - Terms of purchase — tax levy.
Section 52.4 - Examiners — term — removal.
Section 52.5 - Testing and examination of voting equipment.
Section 52.7 - Construction of machine approved — requirements.
Section 52.8 - Experimental use.
Section 52.11 - Locking of unused party row.
Section 52.12 - Exception — straight party voting.
Section 52.13 - Sample ballots.
Section 52.14 - Two sets of ballots.
Section 52.15 - Delivery of ballots and supplies.
Section 52.16 - Duties of election officers — independent ballots.
Section 52.20 - Injury to machine.
Section 52.21 - Canvass of vote — tally sheet.
Section 52.22 - Locking machine.
Section 52.23 - Written statements of election.
Section 52.24 - Separate ballots.
Section 52.25 - Summary of amendment or public measure.
Section 52.26 - Authorized optical scan voting system.
Section 52.27 - Commissioner to provide optical scan voting equipment.
Section 52.28 - Optical scan voting system ballot forms.
Section 52.29 - Optical scan voting system sample ballots.
Section 52.30 - Procedure where votes cast on ballot cards.
Section 52.31 - Procedure where votes cast on optical scan ballots.
Section 52.32 - Procedure upon closing polls.
Section 52.33 - Absentee voting by optical scan voting system.
Section 52.34 - Counting center established.
Section 52.35 - Equipment tested.
Section 52.36 - Commissioner in charge of counting center — appointment of resolution board.
Section 52.37 - Special precinct tabulation procedure.
Section 52.38 - Testing portable tabulating devices.
Section 52.40 - Early pick-up sites established — procedure.
Section 52.41 - Electronic transmission of election results.