BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Where things stand with Iowa’s 2022 early voting numbers
Originally posted on Oct. 29
What’s going on with early voting in Iowa after new Republican-backed laws restricted the practice in many ways?
Overall, numbers are way down compared to the same point in the previous two midterm election cycles, and Iowa Republicans are further below their early voting benchmark than are Democrats.
This post focuses on statewide absentee ballot numbers, because Iowa’s new Congressional districts (while similar in overall shape) are not configured as they were during the 2010s.
If you go back and look at the district-level breakdowns Bleeding Heartland published during the 2018 or 2014 campaigns, remember that what was labeled IA-01 in those tables covered most of northeast Iowa, which is now called IA-02. Conversely, the district covering most of southeast Iowa was IA-02, now known as IA-01 and with a different configuration.
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