Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

[Rogue Valley]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

3/8/21
Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday. The legislation, which passed both Republican-controlled chambers of the state legislature last month, will reduce the number of early voting days from 29 days to 20 days. It will also close polling places an hour earlier on Election Day (at 8 p.m. instead of 9 p.m.). The new law drew immediate backlash from Democrats in the state, including a tweet from the Iowa Democratic party stating, "We deserve better." "Rather than help Iowans keep food on the table and a roof over their family's heads, @IAGovernor and Iowa Republicans chose instead to fast-track legislation that stacks the deck in their favor and disenfranchises Iowans," the tweet said. Democratic election attorney Marc Elias similarly called the law "the first major suppression law since the 2020 election" in a tweet and noted that litigation could be forthcoming.

The law is part of a larger effort by GOP legislators across the country -- including the battleground states of Georgia and Arizona -- to roll back voting access in the wake of the 2020 election. The November election saw record numbers of early and mail-in voters, triggering baseless claims of voter fraud from then-President Donald Trump and some of his fellow Republicans and eventually leading to the deadly insurrection on January 6. Across the country, according to a February analysis by the liberal leaning Brennan Center for Justice, at least 253 bills have been introduced this year in 43 state legislatures with provisions that would restrict voting access -- more than six times the number of bills for the same time last year.

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

 

[Ikari]

Well clearly the problem in 2020 was that people were able to vote. Why let people vote when you can make it needlessly difficult and discouraging?

 

[Rogue Valley]

Well clearly the problem in 2020 was that people were able to vote. Why let people vote when you can make it needlessly difficult and discouraging?

Indeed. That is the GOP plan.

Disenfranchise as many American voters - especially American voters of color - as possible by passing modern versions of Jim Crow voting laws.

 

[Exquisitor]

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

OK, GOP win = Authoritarian ending, Donkey win = Democracy. Go.

 

[gbg3]

20 instead of 29 days and closing an hour earlier on election day is making voting difficult and discouraging? Come on, man! Anyone who has any interest in voting can certainly manage to pull it off in 20 days or manage to actually request an absentee ballot if they be out of town for that entire time. I just don't see the difficult and discouraging aspect of these oh so dramatic measures

 

[gbg3]

If something like this is seen as "difficult", how do some of you manage to get out of bed in the morning and feed yourselves.

 

[Ikari]

20 instead of 29 days and closing an hour earlier on election day is making voting difficult and discouraging? Come on, man! Anyone who has any interest in voting can certainly manage to pull it off in 20 days or manage to actually request an absentee ballot if they be out of town for that entire time. I just don't see the difficult and discouraging aspect of these oh so dramatic measures

Just make a damned mail-in voting system the likes of Colorado, then you don't have to worry about any of this bullshit.

 

[gbg3]

It's up to the individual states but what bullshit is it you're talking about? 20 days vs 29 days? I just don't see that as anything, let alone bullshit. Why the drama about nothing?

 

[j brown's body]

20 instead of 29 days and closing an hour earlier on election day is making voting difficult and discouraging? Come on, man! Anyone who has any interest in voting can certainly manage to pull it off in 20 days or manage to actually request an absentee ballot if they be out of town for that entire time. I just don't see the difficult and discouraging aspect of these oh so dramatic measures

If you're constantly changing the rules for voting, groups that mobilize their voters, have to revise their strategies and retrain their volunteers and re-educate their voters as to what they are. Mistakes are more likely to happen and votes are more likely to be disqualified. Republicans don't have a problem with losing votes on their side, provided their rules result in the loss of even more votes for the other side. And the other side has more voters who benefit from greater opportunities to vote. They aren't idiots. They study voting patterns.

They don't seem to think they can win more votes, so the solution is to win with less votes. That would seem to be the point. If there is another reason for these changes, please let me know.

 

[Slartibartfast]

It's up to the individual states but what bullshit is it you're talking about? 20 days vs 29 days? I just don't see that as anything, let alone bullshit. Why the drama about nothing?

It should be at least 30 days with election offices staffed 24/7 during that time.

 

[Helix]

Force the federal voting rights bill through at all costs.

 

[Callen]

I just don't see the difficult and discouraging aspect of these oh so dramatic measures

Of course you don't. You don't work multiple jobs, you have a car likely two, you don't live in a rural area, you aren't a single Mom who can't afford day care, you don't rely on others to get you to the polls. You have every option including mail in voting which you have happily availed yourself of . What is the purpose of limiting hours.......do you know?

Then again, let's be honest those are exactly the " types" Republicans don't want voting. As Graham said words to the effect. ...if we don't end mail in voting totally we will never win the WH again....

 

[Razoo]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

ALEC hard at work.......

what makes anyone believe the governor or her party are republicans ......try right wing fascists

 

[Crovax]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

New York had early voting for the first time in 2020 and that was only because of COVID.

 

[beefheart]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

How disgusting. Anyone that makes it harder for citizens to vote is un-American.

 

[Chomsky]

20 instead of 29 days and closing an hour earlier on election day is making voting difficult and discouraging? Come on, man! Anyone who has any interest in voting can certainly manage to pull it off in 20 days or manage to actually request an absentee ballot if they be out of town for that entire time. I just don't see the difficult and discouraging aspect of these oh so dramatic measures

Then why do it? Why make it harder? Even if only incrementally?

 

[Chomsky]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

Full mail-in voting, option. It's the only way to avoid this bullshit. There's no need for a plethora of detailed & varied physical voting laws.

 

[Chomsky]

How disgusting. Anyone that makes it harder for citizens to vote is un-American.

Yep. There's reasons when one wants to hinder voting. And they're not good.

 

[mrjurrs]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

R's can't win without voter suppression.

 

[Rawley]

Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law a controversial bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots, her office announced Monday.

www.cnn.com

It's obvious that Republicans don't believe in democracy, especially in democracy when it involves voting. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The GOP is anti-democratic.

Voting rights and lawyer groups should immediately begin to file lawsuits against all of the new Republican vote suppression legislations (253 suppression bills across 43 states so far).

LOL You can't get your couch in 20 days? Too funny

 

[Rawley]

Full mail-in voting, option. It's the only way to avoid this bullshit. There's no need for a plethora of detailed & varied physical voting laws.

Why not just go internet voting?

 

[Moot]

I don't see this as much of a deterrent....but the optics sure makes republicans look bad.

 

[Mycroft]

Just make a damned mail-in voting system the likes of Colorado, then you don't have to worry about any of this bullshit.

I agree...however, they would also need to put Colorado's controls in place. None of this "what's the postmark?" "Let's accept ballots up to two weeks after election day." nonsense. The ballot must be received at the same time that polls close or they are tossed into the trash...and that includes absentee ballots.

All the shenanigans in the last election is what made election fraud so easy to accomplish.

Oh...and get rid of those damned Dominion machines.

 

[Rawley]

Then why do it? Why make it harder? Even if only incrementally?

You too? Can't manage to get off of your couch in 20 days? WTF? 250 years we had one election day. Now 20 days is onerous, racist and antidemocratic. Get a grip already.

 

[Mycroft]

Why not just go internet voting?

Right...

Just let someone hack the vote. What can go wrong. (Not to mention making sure it's YOU who cast your vote and not your neighbor.)