Iowa Code § 46.21

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Conduct of elections.

Official statutory text

At least sixty-four days before each judicial election, the state commissioner of elections shall certify to the county commissioner of elections of each county a list of the judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, and district court including district associate judges, full-time associate juvenile judges, and full-time associate probate judges, and clerks of the district court to be voted on in each county at that election. The county commissioner of elections shall place the names upon the ballot in the order in which they appear in the certificate. The state commissioner of elections shall rotate the names in the certificate by county. The names of all judges and clerks to be voted on shall be placed upon one ballot, which shall be in substantially the following form:STATE OF IOWAJUDICIAL BALLOT(Date)VOTE ON ALL NAMES BY PLACING AN X IN THE APPROPRIATE BOX AFTER EACH NAME.SUPREME COURTShall the following judges of the supreme court be retained in office?CANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNOCANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNOCOURT OF APPEALSShall the following judges of the court of appeals be retained in office?CANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNOCANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNODISTRICT COURTShall the following judge, associate judge, associate juvenile judge, or associate probate judge of the district court be retained in office?CANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNOShall the following clerk of the district court be retained in office?CANDIDATE’S NAMEYESNO

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §46.21]83 Acts, ch 186, §10024, 10201; 89 Acts, ch 136, §30; 99 Acts, ch 93, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §2, 37; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §74

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