Iowa Statutes § 48A.37 Electronic registration records
Statute Text
1.
Voter registration records shall be maintained in an electronic medium. A history of local election participation shall be maintained as part of the electronic record for at least two general, primary, school, and city elections. Absentee voting shall be recorded for the previous two general and primary elections. After each election, the county commissioner shall update telephone numbers provided by registered voters pursuant to section
49.77
.
2.
Electronic records shall include a status code designating whether the records are active, inactive, incomplete, pending, or canceled. Inactive records are records of registered voters to whom notices have been sent pursuant to section
48A.28
, and who have not returned the card or otherwise responded to the notice, and those records have been designated inactive pursuant to section
48A.29
. Inactive records are also records of registered voters to whom notices have been sent pursuant to section
48A.26A
and who have not responded to the notice. Incomplete records are records missing required information pursuant to section
48A.11
, subsection 8. Pending records are records of applicants whose applications have not been verified pursuant to section
48A.25A
. Canceled records are records that have been canceled pursuant to section
48A.30
. All other records are active records. An inactive record shall be made active when the registered voter requests an absentee ballot, votes at an election, registers again, or reports a change of name, address, telephone number, or political party or organization affiliation. An incomplete record shall be made active when a completed application is received from the applicant and verified pursuant to section 48A.25A. A pending record shall be made active upon verification or upon the voter providing identification pursuant to section
48A.8
.
History
Amended by 2021 Iowa SF 413 , s 30 , eff. 3/8/2021 .
94 Acts, ch 1169, §38; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §18, 37; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §357; 2007 Acts, ch 35, §5, 7; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §81; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §20
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