49.30 - ALL CANDIDATES AND ISSUES ON ONE BALLOT -- EXCEPTIONS.
49.30 ALL CANDIDATES AND ISSUES ON ONE BALLOT --
EXCEPTIONS.
All constitutional amendments, all public measures, and the names
of all candidates, other than presidential electors, to be voted for
in each election precinct, shall be printed on one ballot, except
that separate ballots are authorized under the following
circumstances:
1. Where optical scan ballots are used, if it is not possible to
include all offices and public measures on a single ballot, separate
ballots may be provided for nonpartisan offices, judges, or public
measures.
2. Where conventional paper ballots are used, separate paper
ballots shall be used:
a. For the election of township officers in precincts
including both incorporated and unincorporated areas or more than one
township.
b. For public measures.
c. For judges. Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 256; R60, § 491; C73, § 616; C97, § 1106; S13, § 1106;
C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
748; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75,
77, 79, 81, § 49.30]
Section History: Recent Form
90 Acts, ch 1238, §17; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §64; 97 Acts, ch 170, §
29; 98 Acts, ch 1100, § 6; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §31, 115; 2005 Acts,
ch 152, §7, 8; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §20--22
Referred to in § 43.31, 49.43, 49.57A