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Iowa elections: Auditors worry GOP bill puts a target on their backs
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Legislators Kinney and Klein on Bill Sent to Governor Cutting Absentee Voting Time
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“Because different counties use different methods a uniform approach for counting ballots wasn’t performed.”
After a flawed and inconsistent recount left at least 22 voters disenfranchised and thousands of ballots unexamined in Iowa’s Second Congressional District, a bipartisan group of county auditors in Iowa have issued recommended reforms to address some of the issues that left legally cast votes uncounted in IA-02. As KCRG reported last night, these Republican and Democratic election administrators recognize the need for fixes that will guarantee that Iowans’ constitutional right to cast their vote and have that vote counted is not infringed upon as a result of outdated rules and unworkable, arbitrary deadlines.
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Iowa Republican lawmakers plan to give final approval to a bill Wednesday that shortens the early voting period and makes other wide-ranging changes to the state’s election laws.
Iowa Republican lawmakers plan to give final approval to a bill Wednesday that shortens the early voting period and makes other wide-ranging changes to the state’s election laws, sending it to the governor’s desk just one week after the proposal was introduced.
The majority of speakers at a public hearing Monday evening were opposed to the bill.
Janice Weiner of Iowa City said shortening the period for absentee voting will disadvantage snowbirds, victims of domestic violence, and voters in rural areas.
Erin Murphy
Lee Des Moines Bureau
DES MOINES By all accounts, Iowaâs 2020 general election was wildly successful, and that success was driven largely by early voting.
A bill that is rapidly making its way through the Iowa Legislature would constrain, if not outright ban, many of the early voting programs that made the 2020 election in Iowa a record-breaker.
More than 1.7 million Iowans cast a ballot in the 2020 general election, the most in state history. Statewide turnout was 76%, one of the highest rates in the nation. Every county had at least 65% turnout, and 14 surpassed 80%.
Early and absentee voting drove that high turnout: Iowans cast more than 1 million absentee ballots, another state record and nearly 60% of total ballots.
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