Iowa Democratic Party resent ballot request forms to thousands of voters because of mail processing issue

The Iowa Democratic Party sent new absentee ballot request forms to several thousand voters this month after the shape of the original forms prevented them from being automatically processed by the postal service.

According to IDP spokesperson Paige Godden, the mailer was initially sent to about 36,000 voters with a history of absentee voting. She said the party received a call Sept. 9 that there was a problem with the shape of the absentee ballot request form.

Godden said the IDP’s mail vendor looked into the issue and discovered that the form was not “machinable” by the postal service, which means it couldn’t be processed by automated equipment — even though it was the same form the IDP has used “for many years.”

She said the IDP immediately had a new form made that was mailed to the same voters on Sept. 17, along with information urging voters to submit a second request in case their first request wasn’t processed.




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