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dalton99a

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5. "We did it quickly and we did it quietly"

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 11:51 AM

Oct 28

Iowa’s law - passed less than six months after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely blamed Joe Biden's victory on widespread voter fraud - implemented sweeping voting restrictions at multiple steps in the absentee voting process, during early in-person voting, and on Election Day. It’s led to fewer people voting, especially by absentee ballot.

Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, took credit for the bill, and executive director Jessica Anderson praised Iowa for passing “common-sense reforms … to secure our nation’s election.”

“Iowa was the first state that we got to work in, and we did it quickly and we did it quietly,” Anderson said in a video obtained by Mother Jones magazine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/25/absentee-ballot-application-iowa-restrictions/74327984007/

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What's not to love about early voting? [View all] marmar Oct 27 OP

I sure loved it hermetic Oct 27 #1

I love it! Dulcinea Oct 27 #2

As far as voting goes, to me election day is just the last day of voting. GoodRaisin Oct 27 #3

it's the only way I ever vote Skittles Oct 27 #4

"We did it quickly and we did it quietly" dalton99a Oct 28 #5