(Des Moines, IA) — The Iowa Senate has passed legislation to reduce the early voting period in Iowa by nine days and move up the deadline for getting absentee ballots to a county auditor’s office. The bill also calls for the polls on Election Day to close at 8:00 p-m — which is one hour earlier than they now close.
Republican Senator Jim Carlin of Sioux City, who announced last week he’ll run for the U-S Senate in 2022, says Donald Trump’s loss is the reason the bill’s on the fast track at the statehouse. Carlin says “millions and millions and millions believe there was fraud in the election.” Senator Claire Celsi (SELL-see), a Democrat from Des Moines, says the bill is unnecessary and perpetuates “the big lie that the election was not legitimate and Iowa is compelled to fix non-existent problems.”
All the Democrats in the Senate voted against the bill.
