Iowa early voting sets a record – Radio Iowa

Iowa’s commissioner of elections says early voting on this 12 months’s Main Election will set a file in a non-presidential 12 months. Secretary of State Paul Pate says greater than 73-thousand Iowans voted by absentee poll.

“Redistricting and numerous districts getting merged now and new faces after which after all we’ve got a U.S. Senate race on the Republican and Democratic sides and a giant major right here within the Polk space for a congressional race — I feel you set all that collectively and it’s going to place some individuals on the market to verify their voice will get heard,” Pate stated.

Pate has ordered all 99 counties to conduct a post-election audit of the first election. Wednesday, there can be a random drawing to pick one precinct in every county to be a
audited. Pate says that may set off a hand depend of the paper ballots in every of these precincts.

“Evaluate them to what the tabulator stated the outcomes had been and if there occur to be any discrepancy these must be resolved to find out what the problem may need been and in addition to find out if we have to take additional motion,” Pate says. “Once we’ve carried out these post-election audits of Normal Elections within the fall, each one among them we’ve carried out has been 100% match, so I’m optimistic we’ll see the identical once more.”