53.3 - REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATIONS -- PRESCRIBED FORM -- RECEIPT.
53.3 REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN ABSENTEE BALLOT
APPLICATIONS -- PRESCRIBED FORM -- RECEIPT.
1. When an application for an absentee ballot is solicited by, or
collected for return to the commissioner by, a person acting as an
actual or implied agent for a political party, candidate, or
committee, as defined by chapter 68A, the person shall provide the
applicant with the form prescribed by the state commissioner.
2. a. When an application for an absentee ballot is solicited
by, and returned to the commissioner by, a person acting as an actual
or implied agent for a political party, candidate, or committee, as
defined by chapter 68A, the person shall issue to the applicant a
receipt for the completed application.
b. The receipt shall contain the following information:
(1) The name of the applicant.
(2) The date and time the completed application was received from
the applicant.
(3) The name and date of the election for which the application
is being completed.
(4) The name of the political party, candidate, or committee for
whom the person is soliciting and returning the application for the
absentee ballot.
(5) The name of the person acting as an actual or implied agent
for the political party, candidate, or committee.
(6) A statement that the application will be delivered to the
appropriate commissioner within seventy-two hours of the date and
time the completed application was received from the applicant or no
later than 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before the election, whichever is
earlier.
(7) A statement that an absentee ballot will be mailed to the
applicant within twenty-four hours after the ballot for the election
is available.
c. The commissioner shall make receipt forms required by this
section available for photocopying at the expense of the political
party, candidate, or committee. Section History: Recent Form
2004 Acts, ch 1083, §30, 37; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §360; 2008 Acts,
ch 1032, §201; 2008 Acts, ch 1053, §3
Referred to in § 53.49