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In defending his push for an executive order halting the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats mistakenly pointed to an order signed by former Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack that was challenged but eventually upheld by the courts.

An independent audit commissioned by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has found questionable spending, poor bookkeeping and poor oversight of funds the state received from the federal government as part of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

The audit, released the same day as an audit of the state’s film tax credit program, focuses mostly on four years in which Gov. Chet Culver oversaw Iowa’s elections as Secretary of State.

Iowa Rep. Steve King has helped stall a bill granting the District of Columbia full voting rights in the House of Representatives by attaching an amendment gutting the city’s gun laws, the Washington Times reports.
The U.S. Senate passed a version of the bill with a similar amendment, which calls for the elimination of the city’s [...]

The Republicans like photo ID to vote requirements.  In 2006 this was the main Iowa Legislature holdup to paper trails on touch-screen voting machines.  And in the run-up to Ames, the Republican Party of Iowa took shots at the Democrats on ID and election-day voter registration in their media kit:
The Republican Party believes all official [...]