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Southeast Iowa auditors struggle to make sense of elections bill
The Hawk Eye
A bill sitting on Gov. Kim Reynolds desk leaves southeast Iowa county auditors asking one question why changes Iowa s election laws?
The bill, formally known as Senate File 413, includes sweeping changes to Iowa s election laws regarding how elections must be conducted. There s checks and balances in the system we have now, Des Moines County Auditor Terri Johnson told The Hawk Eye Thursday. Some people just don t understand the system and what we do.
According to Johnson, people throughout the state familiar with elections urged the Legislature during hearings on the bill not to pass it, though at least one person also testified she thought she had heard someone being able to vote twice, once in person and once by mail. Johnson, however, said what more likely happened is the person had turned in their mail-in ballot to election workers to be able to vote in person.
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
The Des Moines County Board of Supervisors had a full house when other DMC elected officials joined members of other boards and committees in the public meeting room at the Des Moines County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 29. The meeting was live-streamed on youTube and on the County website.
Supervisors Thomas Broeker, chair, and Bob Beck and Jim Cary welcomed sheriff-elect Kevin Glendening and Supervisor-elect Shane McCampbell, who were sworn in after the regular meeting.
COVID-19 update
Des Moines County Public Health Administrator Christa Poggemiller gave the newest numbers: seven-day total new cases were 86 for an 8% infection rate; 14-day total new cases were 150 for an 11% rate. There have been 3,458 cases of COVID-19 in Des Moines County since February.