Iowa is the only state in the U.S. with a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions. zakcheneyrice writes
Iowa’s state flag. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP/Shutterstock As things stand, the 2020 Iowa caucuses seem on track to continue indefinitely. There’s still no official tally of the results, only vague offerings from the state Democratic Party that things will be clarified later, and reports swirling about the disastrous rollout of an app that was meant to help precincts transmit their vote totals.
But maybe the most vivid emblem of how the caucuses undermine democracy is Iowa election law itself, which applies in caucuses and general elections alike. A major criticism of the state’s status as first to vote is that it’s overwhelmingly white and therefore unrepresentative of either the nation or the Democratic Party — lending outsize king-making power to people who don’t much resemble the electorate that’ll ultimately determine the nominee.
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