New post: #Iowa's largest advocacy group for #Latinos, @LulacIowa, is asking @IowaSOS to let auditors in all 99 counties accept Spanish-language versions of voter registration and absentee ballot request forms.
I reviewed the petition & legal context: bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
I reviewed the petition & legal context: bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
A Polk County judge ruled in 2008 that it was illegal under #Iowa's English-only law for then @IowaSOS Michael Mauro to provide voter registration forms in other languages.
@LulacIowa contends that's incorrect b/c the 2002 had an applicable exception: bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
@LulacIowa contends that's incorrect b/c the 2002 had an applicable exception: bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
#Iowa's 2002 law allows using languages other than English as "required by or necessary to secure the rights guaranteed by" the US & Iowa constitutions.
LULAC maintains that exception should apply to providing voting-related materials in other languages. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
LULAC maintains that exception should apply to providing voting-related materials in other languages. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
Learned something new yesterday that blew my mind.
Everyone remembers then Rep. @SteveKingIA (who had championed #Iowa's English-only law in #ialegis) was lead plaintiff challenging @IowaSOS Mauro's decision to provide voter registration forms in other languages. However...
Everyone remembers then Rep. @SteveKingIA (who had championed #Iowa's English-only law in #ialegis) was lead plaintiff challenging @IowaSOS Mauro's decision to provide voter registration forms in other languages. However...
The judge who decided 2008 case found @SteveKingIA & some other plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge @IowaSOS practice on voter registration forms. bleedingheartland.com/static/media/2…
Case wd have been dismissed, but for 4 #Iowa county auditors who joined lawsuit. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
Case wd have been dismissed, but for 4 #Iowa county auditors who joined lawsuit. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
If not for those county auditors, who were found to have standing to challenge @IowaSOS actions, Polk Co court would not have ruled on merits of @SteveKingIA's lawsuit.
One of those auditors was Montgomery County's own @joniernst. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
One of those auditors was Montgomery County's own @joniernst. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
.@joniernst's job in 2007 was running elections in an overwhelmingly white rural #Iowa county. She felt so strongly that @IowaSOS should not offer voter registration forms in Spanish, Laotian, Bosnian, and Vietnamese that she joined @SteveKingIA's lawsuit. bleedingheartland.com/2021/08/11/adv…
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