A state judge has invalidated more than 50,000 absentee ballot application forms sent to voters in Linn County, Iowa, the second-largest county in the state.
Judge Ian Thornhill agreed with the Trump campaign, which had sued the county over the ballot applications.
CNN:. The judge sided with the Trump campaign and the Republican Party, which filed a lawsuit this month seeking to discard the absentee ballot request forms.
"It is implausible to conclude that near total completion of an absentee ballot application by the auditor is authorized under Iowa law where the legislature has specifically forbidden government officials from partially completing the same document," Judge Ian Thornhill wrote in a Thursday ruling.
"If the defendant mails absentee ballots in response to the prepopulated ABR forms, any of those absentee ballots that are cast would be subject to challenge and may not be counted in the 2020 general election."
The Iowa Secretary of State's Office will be sending separate absentee ballot request forms to all voters in the next few weeks.
Absentee ballot request forms from other organizations will continue to be considered valid, unless the application lacked any required information.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Judge Rules 50,000 Iowa Absentee Ballot Applications Invalid
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