(Radio Iowa) -The Iowa Republican Party is suing to lift the injunction that has blocked signature verification on Iowa absentee ballots. Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports.
(as said) – “A 2017 Iowa law gave election officials authority to reject absentee ballots if the signature on the outside envelopes didn’t match the voter’s other signatures on file. The League of United Latin American Citizens sued. A judge ruled the law could be inconsistently enforced and a court injunction has been in force since 2019. The Iowa G-O-P’s lawsuit charges that absentee voting in Iowa lacks the safeguards in place for in-person voting on Election Day, when voters are required to show a photo I-D. The Republican National Committee is backing the lawsuit and national party chair Joe Gruters says the R-N-C is leading the effort to ensure Iowa absentee ballots are cast by the voters who requested them.”
A spokesman for the League of United Latin American Citizens says signature verification for absentee voting is an unreliable cross-check and the group is considering a legal response to this new lawsuit.
