Southeast Iowa auditors struggle to make sense of elections bill
The Hawk Eye
A bill sitting on Gov. Kim Reynolds desk leaves southeast Iowa county auditors asking one question why changes Iowa s election laws?
The bill, formally known as Senate File 413, includes sweeping changes to Iowa s election laws regarding how elections must be conducted. There s checks and balances in the system we have now, Des Moines County Auditor Terri Johnson told The Hawk Eye Thursday. Some people just don t understand the system and what we do.
According to Johnson, people throughout the state familiar with elections urged the Legislature during hearings on the bill not to pass it, though at least one person also testified she thought she had heard someone being able to vote twice, once in person and once by mail. Johnson, however, said what more likely happened is the person had turned in their mail-in ballot to election workers to be able to vote in person.
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Key Republican senators on the fence about the verdict in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial had some specific factual questions for Trump’s lawyers about his actions on January 6, the day the US Capitol was stormed.
Trump’s attorneys did not come close to answering them.
During a period of the impeachment trial in which senators could submit written questions to either side’s legal team Friday afternoon, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) all wanted to know more about why, exactly, it took so long for Trump to mobilize the federal government to stop the mob, and how the president responded to the situation as it was unfolding.
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However, Van Der Veen argued that there was nothing in the trial record that suggested Trump knew about Pence s whereabouts, and knocked Democrats for the push to quickly impeach Trump. At no point was the president informed that the vice president was in any danger, he said.
Trump s lawyer did not respond to Tuberville s disclosure that he had informed Trump that Pence had been removed from the chamber. He didn’t get a chance to say a whole lot because I said ‘Mr. President, they just took the vice president out, I’ve got to go, Tuberville told reporters this week.