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House File 2486
H-8260
Amend the amendment, H-8256, to House File 2486, as passed by
the House, as follows:
1. By striking page 1, line 4, through page 27, line 1, and
inserting:
<Sec. ___. Section 43.14, subsection 1, paragraph g, Code
2020, is amended by striking the paragraph.
Sec. ___. Section 45.5, subsection 1, paragraph f, Code
2020, is amended by striking the paragraph.
Sec. ___. Section 47.1, subsection 2, Code 2020, is amended
to read as follows:
2. a. The state commissioner of elections may exercise
emergency powers over any election being held in a district
in which either a natural or other disaster or extremely
inclement weather has occurred. The state commissioner’s
decision to alter any conduct for an election using emergency
powers must be approved by the legislative council. If the
legislative council does not approve the secretary of state’s
use of emergency powers to conduct an election, the legislative
council may choose to present and approve its own election
procedures or choose to take no further action. The state
commissioner of elections may also exercise emergency powers
during an armed conflict involving United States armed forces,
or mobilization of those forces, or if an election contest
court finds that there were errors in the conduct of an
election making it impossible to determine the result.
b. If an emergency exists in all precincts of a county,
the number of polling places shall not be reduced by more than
thirty-five percent. The polling places allowed to open shall
be equitably distributed in the county based on the ratio of
regular polling places located in unincorporated areas in the
county to regular polling places in incorporated areas in the
county.
Sec. ___. Section 49.57, subsection 6, Code 2020, is amended
to read as follows:
6. A portion of the ballot shall include the words “Official

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ballot”, the unique identification number or name assigned by
the commissioner to the ballot style, the date of the election,
and the impression or likeness of the county seal of the county
of the commissioner who has caused the ballot to be printed
pursuant to section 49.51.
Sec. ___. Section 54.5, subsection 2, Code 2020, is amended
to read as follows:
2. The state central committee shall also file a list of
the names and addresses of the party’s presidential electors
and alternate electors, one from each congressional district
and two from the state at large, not later than 5:00 p.m.
on the eighty-first day before the general election. A
political party may elect up to two alternate electors at the
party’s state convention. Additionally, the party’s state
central committee may nominate one alternate elector for each
congressional district.
Sec. ___. Section 54.5, Code 2020, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 2A. Each elector nominee and alternate
elector nominee of a political party or group of petitioners
shall execute the following pledge, which shall accompany
the submission of the corresponding names to the state
commissioner:
If selected for the position of elector, I agree to serve
and to mark my ballots for president and vice president for
the nominees for those offices of the party (or group of
petitioners) that nominated me.
Sec. ___. Section 54.7, Code 2020, is amended to read as
follows:
54.7 Meeting —— certificate.
1. The presidential electors and alternate electors shall
meet in the capitol, at the seat of government, on the first
Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following
their election.
2. If, at the time of such meeting, any elector for any

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cause is absent, those present shall at once proceed to
elect, from the citizens of the state, a substitute elector or
electors, and certify the choice so made to the governor, and
the governor shall immediately cause the person or persons so
selected to be notified thereof the state commissioner shall
appoint an individual to substitute for the elector as follows:
a. If the alternate elector is present to vote, by
appointing the alternate elector for the vacant position.
b. If the alternate elector is not present to vote, by
appointing an elector chosen by lot from among the other
alternate electors present to vote who were nominated by the
same political party or group of petitioners.
c. If the number of alternate electors present to vote is
insufficient to fill a vacant position pursuant to paragraphs
“a” and “b”, by appointing any immediately available citizen
of the state who is qualified to serve as an elector and
chosen through nomination by a plurality vote of the remaining
electors, including nomination and vote by a single elector if
only one remains.
d. If there is a tie between at least two nominees to
substitute as an elector in a vote conducted under paragraph
“c”, by appointing an elector chosen by lot from among those
nominees.
e. If all elector positions are vacant and cannot be filled
through the processes set forth in paragraphs “a”, “b”, “c”, and
“d”, by appointing a single presidential elector with remaining
vacant positions filled pursuant to the method set forth in
paragraph “c” and, if necessary, paragraph “d”.
3. To qualify to substitute for an elector under subsection
2, an individual who has not executed the pledge required for
elector nominees and alternate elector nominees under section
54.5 shall execute the following pledge:
I agree to serve and to mark my ballots for president and vice
president consistent with the pledge of the individual whose
elector position I have succeeded.

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Sec. ___. Section 54.8, Code 2020, is amended by striking
the section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
54.8 Elector voting —— certificate of governor.
1. At the time designated for elector voting and after all
vacant positions have been filled under section 54.7, the state
commissioner shall provide each elector with a presidential
and a vice presidential ballot. The elector shall mark the
elector’s presidential and vice presidential ballots with
the elector’s votes for the offices of president and vice
president, respectively, along with the elector’s signature and
the elector’s legibly printed name.
2. Except as otherwise provided by law of this state outside
of this chapter, each elector shall present both completed
ballots to the state commissioner who shall examine the ballots
and accept and cast all ballots of electors whose votes are
consistent with their pledges executed under section 54.5
or 54.7. Except as otherwise provided by law of this state
outside of this chapter, the state commissioner shall not
accept and shall not count an elector’s presidential and vice
presidential ballots if the elector has not marked both ballots
or has marked one ballot in violation of the elector’s pledge.
3. An elector who refuses to present a ballot, presents
an unmarked ballot, or presents a ballot marked in violation
of the elector’s pledge executed under section 54.5 or 54.7
vacates the office of elector. The state commissioner shall
declare the creation of the vacancy and fill the vacancy
pursuant to section 54.7.
4. The state commissioner shall distribute ballots to
and collect ballots from a substitute elector and repeat the
process set forth in this section for examining ballots,
declaring and filling vacant positions as required, and
recording appropriately completed ballots from the substituted
electors until all of the state’s electoral votes have been
cast and recorded.
5. The governor shall duly certify the results, under the

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seal of the state, to the United States secretary of state, and
as required by Act of Congress related to such elections.
Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 54.8A Elector replacement ——
associated certificates.
1. After the vote of this state’s electors is completed,
if the final list of electors differs from any list that the
governor previously included on a certificate of ascertainment
prepared and transmitted under 3 U.S.C. §6, the state
commissioner shall immediately prepare an amended certificate
of ascertainment and transmit the amended certificate to the
governor for the governor’s signature.
2. The governor shall immediately deliver the signed
amended certificate of ascertainment to the state commissioner
and a signed duplicate original of the amended certificate
of ascertainment to all individuals entitled to receive this
state’s certificate of ascertainment, indicating that the
amended certificate of ascertainment is to be substituted for
the certificate of ascertainment previously submitted.
3. The state commissioner shall prepare a certificate
of vote. The electors on the final list shall sign the
certificate. The state commissioner shall process and
transmit the signed certificate with the amended certificate of
ascertainment under 3 U.S.C. §§9 through 11.
Sec. ___. Section 331.552, subsection 4, Code 2020, is
amended to read as follows:
4. Keep the official county seal provided by the county.
The official seal shall be an impression seal on the face of
which shall appear the name of the county, the word “county”,
which may be abbreviated, the word “treasurer” which may be
abbreviated, and the word “Iowa”.
Sec. ___. AFFIDAVIT OF CANDIDACY —— 2020 GENERAL ELECTION
NOMINEES. For the 2020 general election, a candidate nominated
for county hospital trustee or township trustee shall file
with the county commissioner a signed, notarized affidavit of
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not less than sixty-nine days before the general election. An
affidavit of candidacy shall include the information required
under section 44.3.>
2. Title page, by striking line 1 and inserting <An Act
relating to the conduct of elections, including emergency
powers, procedures relating to electors, and the use of a
county seal on materials related to elections.>
3. By renumbering as necessary.>

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KAUFMANN of Cedar

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HUNTER of Polk

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