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Lawmakers dropped the ball in not fixing recount law


By Randy Evans
5/25/2021
The chambers of the Iowa Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives are silent after a busy 2021 session.
 
 
They decided against an increase in tax revenues for the three state universities. They took away authority of local governments to impose face-mask requirements to combat current or future diseases. They made significant changes in the process for creating charter schools, which will operate with state tax money but will not face many requirements public K-12 schools must follow.
 
And they rewrote large portions of Iowa’s election laws. There are new restrictions on the use of absentee ballots. Election Day voting hours have been shortened by one hour. ....

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University of Iowa Professor, Recount Board Member Proposes Changes To 'Totally Outdated' Ballot Counting Procedures


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A law professor and recount board member is calling on state lawmakers to review rules on recount procedure, arguing some laws requiring ballots to be rejected are totally outdated and overly restrictive.
A University of Iowa law professor and member of a recount board in Iowa’s 2
nd Congressional District is calling for a review of state laws on rejecting ballots. A forthcoming article in the Iowa Law Review details some of these rules, which may surprise some Iowans.
Todd Pettys says he was “a little disturbed” by some of the rules that forced him and other members of the Johnson County recount board to reject some voters’ ballots in the race for Iowa’s 2 ....

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