The Iowa GOP is maniacally out of control

| 8:00 pm EDT May 21, 2021
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As I’ve said before, the 2021 session of the Iowa General Assembly has ready largely like a Reich wing wish list. From mandating in person learning, to trying to keep as many Democratic voters as possible from voting, to flooding the state with guns, to trying to add an anti-abortion amendment to the Iowa Constitution, and stopping local governments from taking care of people. Well, come to find out that Iowa GQP passed another last-minute law restricting voting rights as the session wound down that Governor Reynolds is expected to sign.

This measure puts in strict limits for who can deliver absentee ballots on behalf of voters. It limits people who can deliver completed ballots back to county officials to immediate family members or are residents of the same home. People who are blind or disabled must find a “delivery agent” and this person cannot be a union representative or even connected to a political party. The “delivery agent” can only deliver two ballots for other voters per election.

Of course, Republicans are all ready to go with their usual excuses about voter fraud. All while ignoring that this will harm the disabled, those in nursing homes, native communities, and all those who live far from polling sites and lack the economic means to get there.

Despite the bullshit about this being for “election security” this is further proof of Iowa’s Branch Trumpvidian government trying to choose its voters and freeze those who would vote Democratic out of the process, as well as participation in Iowa’s government in general. Even though Orange Florida Man (OFM) won Iowa last year, the thought that people oppose OFM or his groupies is apparently an intolerable offense to Republicans requiring this action.