On a party-line vote of 30 to 18, the Iowa Senate approved Senate File 413

[SharonClark]

from the Polk County Democratic Party Weekly Memo...

The Republicans approved every method to disenfranchise voters that they could think of. They reduced the number of days to request an absentee ballot from 120 days to 70 days. They prohibited the Secretary of State from sending out absentee ballot requests. They prohibited county auditors from mailing absentee ballot requests unless they are specifically requested. Auditors now have 20 days to send out ballots instead of 29 days. Polls now must close at 8:00 PM instead of 9:00 PM. Ballots received after 8:00 must be discarded, even if they are postmarked before that deadline. That would have disqualified 6,500 votes last November. Auditors are restricted to just one ballot dropbox per county.

Only the voter, someone living in their household, an immediate family member, a caretaker, or an authorized staffer in a care facility can deliver sealed and signed ballots. People can only vote early for 17 days now. That number was 40 days before Iowa Republicans started cutting them down in 2017. County auditors can no longer set up satellite voting locations as they see fit. They can only be initiated by official petition. Lastly, registered voters will be moved to inactive status as soon as they miss one general election under the new legislation. Being moved to inactive status is the first step to being booted off the voting rolls entirely.

Source: https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2021/02/24/revised-gop-election-bill-would-exclude-thousands-more-iowa-voters/

[ZonkerHarris]

1. Republicans can only win by cheating

[Laelth]

2. Bastards. Clearly un-democratic. Clearly OPPOSED to our chosen form of government.

Any person who wants to make it HARDER for Americans to vote is anathema to our system of government and is, ultimately, a traitor to this nation.

-Laelth

[turbinetree]

3. I just wonder if these fascists' know how many Iowan's died after the landing of Normandy

so they can perform this fascists shit show and if there parents even spoke to them about what they remember during that time, probably not lets remind them.............

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnist/d-day-a-day-to-never-forget-20180602

[rurallib]

4. I guess we should sing their praises for even allowing us to vote

from the article:

During a three-hour debate, beginning around the 2:06:00 mark of this video, Smith and other Republicans vehemently objected to characterizing their bill as “voter suppression.”

Fucking nazis. Kaufmann whined throughout the campaign when LTTe after LTTE complained about his part in voter suppression last summer.

[lagomorph777]

5. Call your congresscritters and support HR1 For The People Act