52.1 - VOTING SYSTEMS -- DEFINITIONS.
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. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 1137-a7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 904; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.1] Section History: Recent Form
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