State board requests information from group that claimed involvement in Iowa elections bill

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BREAKING via @ErinDMurphy: Iowa's Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board launches investigation into @Heritage_Action and @JessAnderson2's shady—and possibly illegal—lobbying on changes to Iowa election law that will make it harder to vote.

State board requests information from group that claimed involvement in Iowa elections bill
DES MOINES — The state board that monitors lobbying of Iowa’s executive branch is asking for more information from a national organization that claimed involvement in the writing of a
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4:38 PM · May 17, 2021

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DES MOINES — The state board that monitors lobbying of Iowa’s executive branch is asking for more information from a national organization that claimed involvement in the writing of a wide-ranging elections bill that recently was passed into law.

Mike Marshall, executive director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, said Monday that he has requested more information from Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Action after a leaked video showed the group’s director claiming the organization helped Iowa lawmakers draft legislation that, among myriad other things, significantly shortened the state’s early voting period and constrained other early voting programs.

The legislation, Senate File 413, was approved by Republican majorities in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate, and passed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Iowa Rep. Bobby Kaufmann and Iowa Sen. Roby Smith, the Republicans who oversaw the bill’s passage in the Legislature, have denied Heritage Action’s claims that the group was involved in the bill’s creation.

In a letter to Heritage Action, Marshall requested any information regarding any contact the group made with Reynolds’ office. Marshall also asked Reynolds’ office to check their records for any such contact.

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