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Representative Mary Gaskill has filed an omnibus election bill that should help ease the poll worker shortage. She makes it easier to send in a second shift. Only the precinct chair would have to stay all day. Currently a majority of the group must stay all day.
Another Gaskill bill (HF 155) allows No Party voters to work the election. Current law permits only Republicans and Democrats to run the polls. Since a third of Iowa voters are registered No Party, the current law is too restrictive. These independent poll workers can comprise up to one-third of the staff at at the polling place.