Iowa governor signs bill to shorten early voting, close polls earlier

[RandySF]

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a Republican-championed bill on Monday that shortens the state's early voting period and closes the polls earlier on Election Day.

The Iowa governor announced she had placed her signature on Senate File 413 along with a number of other bills months after Iowa reported a record number of voters in the 2020 election.

Under the law, Iowa’s early voting period is reduced from 29 days to 20 days and polls are scheduled to close at 8 p.m. for state and federal elections rather than 9 p.m. Any absentee ballots are required to arrive before the polls close, rather than the previous requirement of being in the mail the day before Election Day and arriving before noon the following Monday.

The newly signed law also forbids auditors and election officials from not enforcing state election laws or going against the Iowa secretary of state's guidelines, saying they could potentially face fines of up to $10,000.

The law had passed both chambers of the Iowa legislature last month after every Republican present voted to approve it and every Democrat present voted against it, the Des Moines Register reported.




https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/542216-iowa-governor-signs-bill-to-shorten-early-voting-close-polls-earlier

[Celerity]

1. Sue the fuck out of them. Also strip Iowa of its first in the nation status, plus force them to drop

those racist (in outcome via the very nature of the process), anti-democratic caucuses.

[TheRealNorth]

4. THIS

They don't deserve to be the poster child of American Democracy anymore.

[EndlessWire]

2. Repubs can't win

unless they restrict Dems and others from voting.

But, guess what? This nation will NOT allow fascism to win. We will suck it up, cinch up our belts, and effing vote them out of office, despite their unAmerican attempts to restrict the voting.

When the average citizen gets tired of this crap, they will turn blue and add their votes to ours, and they will see a better life, and a more profitable way of doing things.

We don't need fascism. We will absolutely stick together, help each other to vote, campaign for Dems, and anything else that keeps Repubs out.

All this Manchinian "collaboration" doesn't work with these people. Show me anything they are currently doing which screams "my country," and maybe I'll reconsider.

But, no, you can't. All we get is this crap. Shame on you, Governor!

[Trueblue1968]

3. federal government needs to sue them.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Meanwhile, our POS governor isn't doing JACK SHIT to get people vaccinated at

anything beyond a glacial pace.

I work in laboratory research, and am required to work on-site, going back to last May. Because I live along the Iowa/Illinois border, we have situations where co-workers who are working from home, but happen to be Illinois residents, have already been vaccinated. Being an Iowa resident, I have NOT had that opportunity.