NEVADA, Iowa — Across Iowa the voting lines have been long. An unofficial survey shows that somewhere around 20-25% of votes in the state have been cast.
“I did poll some of my auditor friends and just asked where they were kind of at with numbers, and a lot of them are between 20 to 25% already voted absentee,” said Rebecca Bissell, President of the Iowa County Auditors Association. “The time crunch going down to 20 days to vote via mail, a lot of people are not, they’re not trusting the mail process or the mail that they had to get their ballots in and out so then they’re coming up and voting in person.”
Bissell is the Adams County Auditor, in Corning. She said that the change from a 29-day period to mail out and send back absentee voter ballots by mail has people worried. Those who were mailing are now, to be safe, coming to vote in-person at the county auditor’s office…