SF 415 – Elections Administration
FLOOR ACTION:
SF 415 makes changes to Iowa election laws. Under current law, precinct election officials are required to tally and record write-in votes after the polls close in all elections. With this bill, as amended by the House, the county auditor in a county using digital ballot counting technology may direct the precinct election officials to tally or count the write-in votes after the polls close, or may direct the officials to deliver those ballots to the special precinct board to tally and record the write-in votes, on any day after the election and before the county board of supervisors canvasses the votes. Digital ballot counting technology is defined as technology in which digital images of write-in votes are printed by the precinct election officials at the polling place after the close of voting. [4/15: 47-1 (Sinclair “no”; Bertrand, Johnson excused)]