BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Senior GOP lawmaker misled elderly Iowan on early voting options
Originally posted on Oct. 30
State Representative John Wills bragged in a recent Facebook post that he had reassured an elderly housebound voter, who was worried about getting an absentee ballot. The third-ranking Iowa House Republican told the story to show the “mantra that Republicans are trying to prevent people who don’t think like us from voting is false.”
More than a dozen Iowa Republican lawmakers and legislative candidates liked Wills’ self-congratulatory post.
There was just one problem: thanks to changes Wills and his colleagues enacted in 2021, the deadline for that woman to request an absentee ballot had already passed.
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