{"id":4897,"date":"2021-03-09T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:34:24","slug":"iowafrw-support-election-reform-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/iowafrw-support-election-reform-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"IowaFRW Support Election Reform Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong>New Election Reform Law Ensures Every Legal Vote is Counted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IowaFRW Thanks the Governor and Legislature for Leading on Voter Laws<\/strong><br \/>\nCEDAR RAPIDS (Tuesday, March 9, 2021) \u2013 Iowa\u2019s new election integrity law is a victory for free and fair elections everywhere, <strong>Iowa Federation of Republican Women President Barbara Hames-Bryant<\/strong> said today. \u201cThe 2020 election in Iowa proved that every vote counts and every legal vote needs to be counted. Iowa\u2019s new election law will ensure that each ballot registered is legitimate, timely, and valid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new law also shortens the election cycle, which is appreciated by Iowa first-in-the-nation voters,\u201d Hames-Bryant continued. \u201cThis tighter and more reasonable time frame ensures we have results of elections right away, so we don\u2019t have to wait days or weeks for the outcome. The waiting only serves to agitate the public and invite second-guessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iowa continues to lead the nation by strengthening voter ID laws and ensuring common-sense reforms are enacted to tackle election fraud and irregularities. On Monday, <strong>Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds<\/strong> signed into law Senate File 413, \u201can Act relating to the conduct of elections, including absentee ballots and voter list maintenance activities, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iowa Legislature makes the laws. It is our job as election officials to follow those laws,\u201d said <strong>Paul Pate, Iowa Secretary of State. <\/strong>\u201cIowa is consistently one of the top states in the nation for voter registration and participation and I\u2019ll keep striving to make us number one. Our goal has always been to make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann<\/strong> released the following statement: \u201cThis is what leadership looks like. I applaud Governor Reynolds and legislative Republicans for showing Iowans that the GOP is listening to their concerns and defending the integrity of our election system. While our election systems were already strong, this bill improves upon the work Republicans did in 2017, when they passed Voter ID laws. The 2020 election showed us where shortfalls in our system existed and Iowa Republicans created solutions targeted at fixing those shortfalls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Federation of Republican Women (<a href=\"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\">www.iowafrw.org<\/a>) is the premier organization for uniting voices and values within the Republican Party, and is part of the National Federation of Republican Women, founded in 1938. The NFRW (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfrw.org\">www.nfrw.org<\/a>) is the largest and most influential women\u2019s political organization in the nation, proudly representing the party that first made it possible for women to vote in the United States, and working to increase the effectiveness and relevance of women in the cause of good government. Our mission is to recruit and elect Republican candidates, promote the principles of the Republican Party, educate the public, and inform the media.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Lori Leonard Reyman<br \/>\nSpokesperson<u><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lori@section23media.com\">lori@section23media.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Election Reform Law Ensures Every Legal Vote is Counted IowaFRW Thanks the Governor and Legislature for Leading on Voter Laws CEDAR RAPIDS (Tuesday, March 9, 2021) \u2013 Iowa\u2019s new...","protected":false},"author":1001009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowafrw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}