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Iowa
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/ElectionLaws/ElectionLaws.pdf

39A.4 Election misconduct in the third degree.
1. A person commits the crime of election misconduct in the third degree if the person willfully commits any of the following acts:
a. Election day acts. Any of the following on election day:
(1) Loitering, congregating, electioneering, posting signs, treating voters, or soliciting votes, during the receiving of the ballots, either on the premises of a polling place or within three hundred feet of an outside door of a building affording access to a room where the polls are held, or of an outside door of a building affording access to a hallway, corridor, stairway, or other means of reaching the room where the polls are held. This subparagraph does not apply to the posting of signs on private property not a polling place, except that the placement of a sign that is more than ninety square inches in size on a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, or its attachment to a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer parked on public property within three hundred feet of a polling place is prohibited.
(2) Interrupting, hindering, or opposing a voter while in or approaching the polling place for the purpose of voting.
(3) As a voter, submitting a false statement as to the voter’s ability to mark a ballot.
(4) Interfering or attempting to interfere with a voter when the voter is inside the enclosed voting space, or when the voter is marking a ballot.
(5) Endeavoring to induce a voter to show how the voter marks or has marked a ballot.
(6) Marking, or causing in any manner to be marked, on a ballot, any character for the purpose of identifying such ballot.

49.84 Marking and return of ballot.
After receiving the ballot, the voter shall immediately go alone to one of the voting booths, and without delay mark the ballot. All voters shall vote in booths. No special lines shall be used to separate voters who state that they wish to vote only a portion of the ballot. Before leaving the voting booth, the voter shall fold the ballot or enclose it in a secrecy folder to conceal the marks on the ballot. The voter shall deliver the ballot to one of the precinct election officials. No identifying mark or symbol shall be endorsed on the back of the voter’s ballot. If the precinct has a portable vote tallying system which will not permit more than one ballot to be inserted at a time, the voter may insert the ballot into the tabulating device; otherwise, the election official shall place the ballot in the ballot box. This section does not prohibit a voter from taking minor children into the voting booth with the voter.
[C51, §257; R60, §492; C73, §617; C97, §1117, 1119; S13, §1119; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §801; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §49.84]
94 Acts, ch 1180, §16; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §41, 115

49.88 Limitation on persons in booth and time for voting.
No more than one person shall be allowed to occupy any voting booth at any time. No person shall occupy such booth for more than three minutes to cast a vote. Nothing in this section shall prohibit assistance to voters under section 49.90.

Iowa Code 39A.4(1) makes it a crime for a person from “congregating … either on the premises of a polling place or within three hundred feet of an outside door of a building affording access to a room where the polls are held.” This may prevent a person with a film or video camera from positioning himself near the entrance in order to photograph or record voters entering and exiting the polling place.

Iowa Code 39A.4(5) makes it a crime to “induce a voter to show how the voter marks or has marked a ballot.” This provision may prevent a person from photographing or recording someone else voting. It does not appear to affect the ability of a person to record himself/herself when voting. The Iowa Code does not include any references to the use of film cameras or video cameras at polling places.