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Iowa election bills would expand registration checks, change recount rules and ban ranked-choice voting, secretary says
Summary
Secretary of State Paul Pate described provisions in a major Iowa elections package: front-end citizenship checks at registration, allowing poll-worker remedies to avoid on-the-spot provisional ballots, changes to recount boards and thresholds, a ban on ranked-choice voting and limits on party access to ballots.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate outlined components of a broad elections package moving through the Legislature that he said would make registration and recount procedures more uniform and clarify who gets access to federal immigration and identity lists.
Pate said the bills include provisions to emphasize registration-level verification of citizenship rather than attempting to resolve questions at polling places on Election Day. “I personally prefer my approach, and that is one where we deal with all this at the voter registration level rather than the day they're voting,” Pate said.
The legislation would, by Pate’s account, authorize his office to obtain federal lists used to check immigration or citizenship status and clarify the format states should receive them. Pate told Iowa Press…
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