Item
Iowa Attempts to Limit Election Official’s Power During Pandemic
Title (Dublin Core)
Iowa Attempts to Limit Election Official’s Power During Pandemic
Iowa Public Radio news story
#COVID-19, #Iowa, #Election
#COVID-19, #Iowa, #Election
Description (Dublin Core)
Following Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s decision to send absentee ballot requests to every registered voter ahead of the June 2nd primary, Senate Republicans passed a bill to limit the Secretary’s power and prohibit the same action from occurring again. Pate’s decision was made in an effort to allow all Iowans the change to vote without increasing the risk of spreading COVID-19 at the polls. With many rural counties reducing in-person polling places to just one per county, absentee voting was the only choice for many rural Iowans. The decision by Pate resulted in a record voter turnout for the state.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 6, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Katarina Sostaric
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Cody Brown
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Iowa Public Radio
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government State
English
Events
English
News coverage
English
Rural
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
vote
election
senate
turn out
Collection (Dublin Core)
Rural Voices
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/12/2020
08/02/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/18/2020
06/27/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
6/06/2020
This item was submitted on June 12, 2020 by Cody Brown using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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