Articles Tagged: Election laws

A new state law requires an Iowa registered voter’s status to be moved from active to inactive after failing to vote in any general election

November brings the first general election in Iowa under a new state law that gave exclusive jurisdiction over prosecuting elections crimes to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office

Congressional Republicans and Democrats are trading barbs over GOP-written legislation that would ban noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections, which already is prohibited.

Meantime, a year later Iowa has not replaced an interstate compact for comparing voter registration lists across states.

Democrats vehemently opposed the bill, arguing it would make it harder for certain Iowans to cast a ballot. Republicans said the bill aims to maintain the highest level of election integrity in Iowa.

The Iowa Supreme Court pieced together so-called legislative immunity from multiple places in the Iowa Constitution, and ruled it extends to communications with third parties

I remember a comment a voter once made as he handed me his driver’s license at the polling place where …

Secretary of State Paul Pate is imploring state lawmakers to pass legislation that would streamline the state’s recount process after inconsistencies were found during the 2020 recount of a historically close congressional election

In early September, I came across a copy of an email received by a resident of the Cedar Rapids Community …

The program helped elections officials discover 36 cases of alleged duplicate voting in 2018; Iowa Republicans say the program has exceeded its original intention

New proposals also include storing ballot records and allowing cross-county challenges to voter registration.

Local elections officials expressed some support for the proposal, which comes after multiple recounts in Iowa’s recent election cycles.

County auditors seeking more time to mail absentee ballots

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said his office and law enforcement agencies are working together to ensure Iowans’ votes will be safe and counted accurately

Local officials will be required to conduct audits in two races after the Nov. 8 elections