Articles Tagged: Joel Miller

Office missed including a race on some ballots and initially miscounted absentee ballots.

Joel Miller, who’s served as Linn County’s auditor since 2007, said he will not seek re-election in 2024, when his current term is up. The 67-year-old hasn’t decided what’s next, whether it’s another public office or something else.

A bipartisan, three-member board began recounting ballots Tuesday in a Linn County race,

Election workers are a part of something special.

The county initially reported more absentee ballots than it received; the error was caught by state officials and the county’s results were corrected

The office has been made aware of “an apparent technical violation of Iowa’s election laws,”

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

Iowa’s Republican Secretary of State’s Office has been trying to tamp down voting misinformation, while members of his own party are pushing conspiracy theories, including those running for office in Linn and Johnson counties.

Paul Pate is a former state legislator and mayor of Cedar Rapids while Joel Miller is the current Linn County auditor and former mayor or Robins.

No one mentions ‘kissing’ allegation involving Mike Franken

Despite challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic and a rise in conspiracy theory-fueled threats to election workers nationwide, Iowa election officials say they’ve had success recruiting poll workers to staff the upcoming general election.

The candidates to be Iowa’s statewide elections official showed they disagree strongly on many topics

An Iowa GOP election bill from 2021 moved 294,000 Iowans to inactive status for not voting in the 2020 general election. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, now running for Iowa Secretary of State, says 80 percent of Linn County’s deactivated voters still are inactive, which is “one step closer” to being canceled. We’ll check those claims.

Democratic Linn County Auditor says advocating for laws that make in-person and absentee voting easier would be his prime focus as secretary of state.

A name will be drawn from hat at Wednesday’s Linn County Board of Supervisors meeting