A voters’ alliance failed to show how it was harmed by two Iowa counties receiving money from a private organization to offset the cost of running the Nov. 3, 2020 federal election during the Covid-19 pandemic.
(CN) A federal judge in Iowa Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit claiming it was illegal for county election officials to receive money from outside organizations to pay for election expenses. The judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing.
Iowa’s Black Hawk and Scott Counties accepted grants from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a non-profit organization that offered “Covid-19 Response Grants” to local election jurisdictions that lacked sufficient funding to cover unforeseen costs of conducting an election safely during a pandemic.