1. Upon receipt of the abstracts of votes from the counties, the secretary of state shall immediately open the envelopes and canvass the results for alloffices. The secretary of state shall invite to attend the canvass one representative from each political party which, at the lastthree preceding general elections, cast for its candidate for president of the United States or for governor, as the case may be, at least two percent of the total vote cast for allcandidates forthat officeat those elections, as determined by the secretaryof state. Thesecretary of state shall notify the chairperson of each political party of the time of the canvass. However, the presence of a representative from a political party isnot necessary for the canvass to proceed. 2. Not later than the twenty-seventh day after the primary election, the secretary of state shall present to the state board of canvassers abstracts showing the number of ballots cast by each political party for each office and a summary of the results for each office, showing the votes cast in each county. The state board of canvassers shall review the results compiled by the secretary of state and, if the results are accurately tabulated, the state board shall approve the canvass. [S13, §1087-a22; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §591; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §43.63] Subsection1amended
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