A bill for an act relating to the labelling of ballots by county commissioners of elections.

This bill requires Iowa county election commissioners to label every ballot cast in primary and general elections with the method used to submit it. The label must specify whether the ballot was cast in person on election day, in person before election day, by mail (non-military/overseas), by mail under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (military), or by mail under that act (overseas citizens). The state election commissioner must create rules to implement these labeling requirements through existing administrative procedures. This directly affects county election offices and provides voters with clear information about how ballots were submitted.