51.7 - DUTIES OF DOUBLE BOARDS. - Iowa Statutes

51.7 DUTIES OF DOUBLE BOARDS. The counting boards shall proceed to the respective voting places to which they have been appointed at such time as the commissioner may direct, and shall take charge of the ballot box containing the ballots already cast in that precinct. The counting board shall retire to a partitioned space or room provided for that purpose and there proceed to count and tabulate the ballots as it shall find them deposited in the ballot box. The receiving board shall continue to receive the votes of electors in the other box provided, until such time as the counting board shall have finished counting and tabulating the ballots cast in the first ballot box. The two boards shall then exchange the first box for the second box and so continue until they have counted and tabulated all the votes cast on that election day. When the hour arrives for closing the polls, the receiving board shall certify to all matters pertaining to casting of ballots and shall then unite with the counting board in the counting of ballots. The precinct election officials shall then divide the ballots not counted and each group of officials shall proceed to canvass their portion of the same. When the canvass has been completed the officials shall report the result of their canvass in the manner provided by section 50.11.          Section History: Early Form [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 893; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 51.7]          Section History: Recent Form 88 Acts, ch 1119, §23 Referred to in § 49.25 Tally list, § 50.16