Posted on 10/21/2020 7:30:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a Republican-backed law barring auditors from fixing errors in absentee ballot applications on behalf of voters.
In the 4-3 ruling, the court barred county auditors from correcting incomplete applications based on state voter databases, according to The Associated Press. While auditors were permitted to make the changes before the new law, they will now be required to send them back to applicants to correct.
“We are not persuaded the statute imposes a significant burden on absentee voters. It is not a direct burden on voting itself,” the four justices wrote. They wrote that only about 13,000 absentee ballot requests out of over 842,000 had not been fulfilled as of Friday.
In their dissent, the minority wrote that the law would “likely cause thousands of voters to not receive their ballot in time to use it.”
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Oxley one of the 3 bad ones. Who are the other 2?
Good. They are “correcting” incorrect ballots in Maryland.
Fill it out wrong? It gets shredded.
Absolutely! If you cannot follow simple ballot instructions, you shouldn't be voting!
I would really like to know how many ill, incapacitated, or whatever honest-to-Gawd VOTERS we have in America that can’t get their butts to their polling places on Election Day.
I TOTALLY understand absentee ballots for our Miltary-Types, but the rest of us who are stateside really need to get out and VOTE in PERSON and take our Parents and Grandparents and any friends and neighbors that need a ride with us. How hard is that? It’s an HONOR and a DUTY to do so!
Whose idea was this in the first place? I truly do not know the origins of ‘absentee voting.’
One Day, One Vote Per Person!
One Day, One Vote Per Person!
Agree.
Over 200 years of everyone voting on the same day and the last 20 years, people can't walk down the street or drive to a polling booth on election day.
Absentee. Mail in. Same day. Provisional. Harvesting.
The fact that 3 ruled against means we’re teetering on the edge of destruction.
They may be simple to you, but I have a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from a prestigious University and they are frequently ambiguous to me.
Ya, but election officials should be able to correct a “misvote” for Trump, no?
LOL
So what if the law imposes a significant burden, as long as the burden is applied equally to everyone?
Democrat corruption in Iowa? Oh no, Jim. Tell me it’s not true!
Jim: If there is a Democrat around, it is true!
“In space, you can hide a lot of Republican ballots”. Ripley!
Except these are ballot applications not actual ballots.
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