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Iowa Statutes § 48A.28 Systematic confirmation program

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Statute Text

1. Each commissioner shall conduct a systematic program that makes a reasonable effort to remove from the official list of registered voters the names of registered voters who have changed residence from their registration addresses.
2.
a. A commissioner shall participate in the United States postal service national change of address program, as provided in section 48A.27 . The state voter registration commission shall adopt rules establishing specific requirements for participation and use of the national change of address program.
b. A commissioner participating in the national change of address program, in the first quarter of each calendar year, shall send a notice and preaddressed, postage paid return card by forwardable mail to each registered voter whose name was not reported by the national change of address program and who has not voted in the most recent general election and has not registered again or who has not reported a change to an existing registration. Registered voters receiving such notice shall be marked inactive. The form and language of the notice and return card shall be specified by the state voter registration commission by rule. A registered voter shall not be sent a notice and return card under this subsection more frequently than once in a four-year period. A registered voter shall not be sent a notice and return card under this subsection if the registered voter was not eighteen years of age on the date of the general election.

History

Amended by 2021 Iowa SF 568 , s 21 , eff. 6/8/2021 .

Amended by 2021 Iowa SF 413 , s 26 , eff. 3/8/2021 .

Amended by 2021 Iowa SF 413 , s 25 , eff. 3/8/2021 .

94 Acts, ch 1169, §29; 97 Acts, ch 170, §19, 20; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §25, 115; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §16, 37; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201

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