Judge upholds Republican-backed law making absentee voting harder in Iowa

[RandySF]

IOWA CITY, Ia. — A judge is refusing to block a new Republican-backed Iowa law that makes it harder for county officials to process absentee ballot applications and more likely that incomplete requests won’t be fulfilled.

In an opinion dated Friday and released Monday, Judge Lars Anderson rejected arguments by a Latino civil rights organization and a Democratic Party group that the law is an undue burden on the fundamental right to vote.

The ruling is another victory for Republicans who want to limit absentee voting, which begins next week in Iowa. The Trump campaign and Republican Party groups have already invalidated tens of thousands of absentee ballot applications returned by voters in three counties.

At issue is a law passed this summer that blocks county auditors from using their databases to fill in any missing information on voters’ absentee ballot applications.



https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/28/judge-upholds-gop-law-makes-absentee-voting-harder-iowa/3564087001/

[StClone]

1. What stinks-It's not just the confinement Facilities anymore

Iowa was my home for 24 years and it looms large in my heart. But the ill-winds of conservatism has blown the whole state to the edge of a cliff of disaster. I look at it with sense of loss and despair. (Through Koch money corruption here, WI is no better).

[Hoyt]

2. I just can't get upset about someone not receiving an absentee ballot because

they left off their driver license number or PIN number. It’s clearly specified.

I don’t think Democrats are that helpless or stupid. Some seem to. Local Democratic groups will help.

I bet there are more GOPers screwing that up.

[StClone]

3. Plenty of time to get it in and counted

Despite the un-Democratic attacks, do good and get it done right.