Des Moines, Iowa — Today (Tuesday) is National Voter Registration Day and Secretary of State Paul Pate has a check list.
Pate says a national day dedicated to this issue is a little like civics 101.
The period for REQUESTING an absentee ballot is underway. October 16th is the first day election officials can mail absentee ballots to voters. October 16th is also the first day Iowans can vote in person at their county auditor’s office. There was a delay in printing ballots in Iowa’s first, third, and fourth congressional districts this year — until the Iowa Supreme Court issued its ruling last Wednesday that Libertarian candidates in those districts had not qualified to be listed on ballots. Saturday, September 15th was the federal deadline for mailing ballots to Iowans in the military who’re serving out of state or to Iowa residents living overseas and Pate says county election officials met that deadline.
More than two-point-two million Iowans are registered to vote. About 40 percent of them did not vote in the 2022 election.
