Iowa Democrats fume over GOP change to ballot law
Source: Politico
DES MOINES — Iowa Democrats are worried that a small change in the state’s voting law might have serious implications up and down the ballot this fall.
For the first time, Iowa voters will be denied the opportunity to vote a straight-party ticket — the time-honored practice which enables voters to choose a party’s entire slate of candidates with a single mark. Until the legislature outlawed the practice in 2017, voters could simply fill in just one oval to back every single party candidate on the ballot.
Now, with grassroots enthusiasm surging and a higher-than-usual turnout expected in November, Democrats are increasingly nervous that the change will end up tamping down their vote totals in a year that shows signs of being a wave election for the party.
“Republicans approved this legislation because they knew they had to face a midterm with an unpopular president,” David Yepsen, an Iowa political analyst and longtime former political reporter for the Des Moines Register. “Much of the Democratic strategy is aimed at first-time voters, especially millennials. There’s going to be a lot of first time, anti-Trump voters who will show up and they could be confused in the polling booth.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/23/iowa-voting-law-midterm-elections-929530
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Here in Philly, we have something like 1676 or so divisions (basically precincts), each covering a resident population of about 800 - 1000. A polling place is no more than 6 - 10 blocks from a resident in that division. Each division gets 2 machines (these are collapsible, membrane pad push-to-vote light-up units). On average during the heaviest turnouts, they may get a couple hundred that actually show up to vote during an entire general election day (7 am - 8pm), although there may be hours where no one comes in at all and other hours where this a line at peak times.
On TV they always show people going into a large space with tables and table-top partitions setup where I guess they are actually filling ovals on a paper ballot that gets fed into a machine. Is this what you all do?
It seems to me that nationwide, for those who don't have early voting and/or mail-in voting, there is a severe lack of polling locations... so you literally have thousands of people showing up at one place during peak times forcing that kind of wait - and you see this over and over and over. 
where we can vote straight ticket! 
you need one of these! The other kind just ain't the same!
....years ago (Keystone and Liberty Bell), but I could never even THINK of putting mustard on them!
Do they dance like mine does? 
And Liberty Bell's site has a mall.
Fluffians always ask for a "mustard pretzel". That's when they dance and slosh all that mustard all over the place!
(I like mine plain though... 
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was that the drive-in lot was behind a motel (and guests could have actually seen the screen from their rooms)!
I remember seeing "The Godfather" & "Tales from the Crypt" there in '72. Also remember seeing "Ben" & "A Man Called Horse". They used to have $1 a carload nights and would show 6 movies (we usually left after the 3rd or 4th).
