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Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster: One of a class of emergency situations that may result in the postponement of an election.

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One of a class of emergency situations that may result in the postponement of an election. A “natural occurrence, such as a fire, flood, b lizzard, earthquake, tornado, windstorm, ice storm, or other events, which threatens the public peace, health and safety of the people or which damages and destroys public and private pr operty.” Iowa Admin. Code §721-21.1(1). See

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