This past Monday, Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a stronger election integrity bill for the state of Iowa, which Democrat election attorney, Marc Elias, referred to as “the first major suppression law since the 2020 election.” The bill, SF 413, was designed “to shorten early voting, restrict absentee voting, and close the polls earlier on Election Day.”
Additionally, the new law only permits a few people to return a voter’s absentee ballot, including the voter, their immediate family or household member, or caregiver. This aspect was designed to limit or curtail “ballot harvesting’ that is a practice vulnerable to fraudulent alteration of the ballots of innocent victims. Reynolds emphasized the protection of this sacred right: