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| Name | Republicans working to change early voting laws in Iowa |
| Video Uploader | Video From We Are Iowa Local 5 News |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 23-02-2021 00:16:25 |
| Video Discription | Jasper County Auditor Dennis Parrot told Local 5's Lakyn McGee that there is a big part of the bill being overlooked— it gives more authority to the secretary of state and would take power away from county auditors. Parrott said this could allow more access to voter fraud. "Long-term, it's going to cost Iowa, one of these days, if we centralize elections," Parrott said. Parrott said he wants auditors to have enough time for the whole ballot request process, which includes receiving a voter's request, mailing the ballot to the voter and the voter sending it back. Parrott said the proposed 18 days is enough time, but it shouldn't be any shorter than that. "If we do that, what we will have is hundreds of thousands of ballots statewide being mailed and people coming in and canceling those," Parrott said. "But those thousands of ballots will still be in the publics' hands even though they have voted." County auditors are currently able to send ballot request forms to voters, but the bill would give that power solely to the secretary of state. Even then, the secretary of state would only be able to do so during a public health disaster, which only the governor can declare. In November, Jasper County officials had to recount 11,000 ballots due to a human error. But Parrott said he doesn't believe this bill is targeting his county. "I don't know that we're being targeted. I would just hope that the legislature would not do anything on a personal basis," Parrott said. Parrott said making the changes the bill proposes could be dangerous to Iowa's election system. "We need decentralization of elections," Parrott said. Local 5 reached out to Secretary of State Paul Pate about the matter. His office said his goal is to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. Read more: https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/iowa-election-early-voting-bill-impact-right-to-vote/524-6845a067-d43a-49dc-8ed2-5af8da2a31f7 Subscribe to Local 5 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/weareiowalocal5news Download the We Are Iowa app: https://weareiowa.com/app Get Local 5’s "5 Things to Know" newsletter in your inbox: https://weareiowa.com/email 'Like' Local 5 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/WeAreIowa Follow Local 5 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weareiowa5news Follow Local 5 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/weareiowa |
| Category | News & Politics |
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