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December 10, 2020
After last month’s recount in Iowa’s Second Congressional District left thousands of ballots uncounted, county auditors involved with the process and a local legislator are advocating for reforms to Iowa’s recount law.
As the Quad City Times reported last night, “the lack of an established, standard process in Iowa Code” for reviewing ballots in a recount meant that several counties failed to check thousands of ballots for voter intent and left 35 ballots from military service members and Iowans living overseas uncounted. State Rep. Mary Wolfe told the Times, “we can’t be sure that that happened in this recount, because of a combination of a lot of different issues and thousands of under votes that weren’t examined.” She plans to introduce bipartisan legislation to remedy the issue.
Iowa needs to change its recount process to provide more time, more assistance and more uniformity following discrepancies and confusion that beset Iowa s incredibly tight Iowa 2nd Congressional District race,