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Only three groups lobbied to pass the lousy elections bill that just tore like a bullet train through the Iowa Legislature, fueled by fictional fraud. There’s the Iowa Minute Man Civil Defense Corps, which supports right-wing legislation. And the Kirkwood Institute, led by Iowa attorney Alan Ostergren, who helped the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign sue “rogue” auditors last year. And then there’s the Opportunity Solutions Project, based in Tallahassee, Fla. Its lobbyist at the Statehouse, Andy Conlin of West Des Moines, is registered in favor of the elections bil...

The Iowa Legislature is considering bills that would change Iowa's election laws. Opponents of the bills have been quick to throw around the term 'voter suppression' and claim that the proposals are a threat to our democracy. But the truth is these bills are a needed response to abuses by election officials and simply place Iowa in the mainstream of laws governing absentee voting.

Shares A sign sits outside of the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, a polling place during the Iowa primary election, June 2, 2020. — Emma McClatchey/Little Village At least 33 state legislatures around the country, most of them controlled by Republicans, are working on bills that restrict voting. Iowa is one of them. “These bills are an unmistakable response to the unfounded and dangerous lies about fraud that followed the 2020 election,“ the Brennan Center for Justice said in a report on the bills published earlier this month. Republican leaders in the Iowa Legislature are fa...

Iowa Republicans respond to 2020 abuses and seek to improve election integrity Alan Ostergren, Iowa View contributor Who won Iowa's 2020 Senate and congressional races? Replay Video UP NEXT The Iowa Legislature is considering several bills that would change Iowa’s election laws. The arguments against these bills (or any election law change, it seems) is that the result will be widespread voter suppression and a fundamental threat to democracy. But these arguments have more heat than light. The truth is much simpler. We are freshly off of a hotly contested election season. F...

State Democratic lawmakers plan to push forward a bipartisan proposal to reform Iowa's election recount process in the wake of issues that arose in Iowa’s historically close U.S. House race,