(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa House has passed a bill that would give the secretary of state authority to hire a vendor to check for non-citizens on Iowa voter registration lists.
The bill, which passed on a party-line vote, does a number of other things. It would ban ranked choice voting AND make it harder for a political party to gain “major party status” alongside Democrats and Republicans.
The bill also would prohibit so-called “spoiler” candidates who lose in the primary election in June, then run in the General Election as an independent candidate or the nominee of another party. The House approved another election-related bill that would set new guidelines for election recounts.