Yesterday, the Iowa Senate approved HF516 with several amendments. So now it goes back to the House and/or a conference committee comprised of House & Senate members for consideration.
What do you think?
One of the Senate’s amendments included a provision to rotate names on the ballots between each precinct. It was not debated by the Senate and we are not certain our voting system can create a ballot that conforms to the proposed law.
Here is what we believe a rotation for supervisor might look like under the proposed law:
Supervisor-at-Large – Pct 1Republican ARepublican BRepublican CDemocrat ADemocrat BDemocrat CLibertarian ALibertarian BGreen AGreen B |
Supervisor-at-large – Pct 2Democrat BDemocrat CDemocrat ARepublican BRepublican CRepublican ALibertarian BLibertarian AGreen BGreen A |
Supervisor-at-large – Pct 3Republican CRepublican ARepublican BDemocrat CDemocrat ADemocrat BLibertarian ALibertarian BGreen AGreen B |
By Joel D. Miller – Linn County Auditor
Update (5:53pm – 3/24/2017): Per Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, our newly purchased (2016) voting system cannot create the ballot rotation proposed in HF516.
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