IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
53.32 - BALLOT OF DECEASED VOTER.
53.32 BALLOT OF DECEASED VOTER.
When it shall be made to appear by due proof to the precinct
election officials that any elector, who has so marked and forwarded
a ballot, has died before the affidavit envelope is opened, then the
ballot of such deceased voter shall be endorsed, "Rejected because
voter is dead", and be returned to the commissioner; but the casting
of the ballot of a deceased voter shall not invalidate the election.
Section History: Early Form
[SS15, § 1137-l; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 958; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 53.32] Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 215, §236
Referred to in § 53.49