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Election officials are urging Iowans who received an absentee ballot in the mail to return their ballot as soon as possible. For many Iowans, it may be too late to return a ballot through the mail.
Why else would they insist on tinkering with Iowa’s election system?
It is the system that recently delivered the GOP stronger majorities in the Iowa Legislature, five out of six seats in the U.S. Congress and six Electoral College votes, in consecutive elections, for former President Donald Trump.
Yet the legislative victors insist again this session that voting reforms are needed.
So lawmakers quickly pushed through legislation that would shorten Iowa’s early voting period from 29 to 20 days (down from 40 days in 2016), reduce Election Day voting by an hour and create a stricter deadline for returning absentee ballots.