Free Speech For Individuals despatched a letter to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds urging a veto of HF 928, a invoice that may considerably restrict the flexibility of Iowans to hunt recounts in elections with shut or anomalous outcomes.
The letter cautioned:
Iowa’s elections are verifiable and recountable as a result of votes are recorded totally on hand-marked paper ballots that present a sturdy, voter-verified bodily report of voter intent that may be recounted…
Limiting the flexibility to hunt recounts of the paper ballots by hand recounts will make Iowa’s election outcomes nearly totally reliant on computerized tabulators. However tabulators aren’t infallible and might miscount votes resulting from software program bugs, programming errors, misconfigurations and even malicious tampering. Vital or delicate miscounts have occurred even when machines have handed pre-election testing.3 Making certain candidates and residents can search recounts in shut elections is an important factor to the integrity of the election course of.
Free Speech For Individuals joined Iowans for Verified Voting and VerifiedVoting.org and a half dozen main election and auditing specialists in calling on the governor to veto the invoice.
The letter might be considered right here.
