Lee County Auditor Denise Fraise says it took some work to gather up the team but says all open poll worker openings have been filled ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Lee County Auditor Denise Fraise announces that the Lee County Auditor’s Office is now accepting absentee ballot requests for the Nov. 7, City/School Election.
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.