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HSB 719
A bill for an act relating to the conduct of elections, including provisions related to absentee ballots, recounts, and contested gubernatorial elections and impeachments, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(See HF 2526.)
Subcommittee members: Kaufmann-CH, Boden, Wolfe
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: RM 102, Sup. Ct. Consult
Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.
Comments Submitted:

02-15-2022
Diane Holst
Zuckerberg orchestrated a money apparatus of 10 nonprofits funded by 5 foundations whose involvement fundamentally undermined the electoral system. The 2020 election witnessed a coordinated and concerted effort funded by Mr. Zuckerberg and other hightech interests to use government to improperly influence the election. Zuckerbergs $500 million intervention included a $350 million donation to the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which used the money to illegally inflate turnout. This network injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the election, violating state and federal election laws in the process and ensuring an unequal distribution of funding, depriving voters of both due process and equal protection. Sixtyseven Iowa counties received CTCL funding ranging from $5,000 to $1.9 million per county leading up to the 2020 general election, which clearly illustrates unequal distribution of funding. I support legislation that only allows public funding of our general elections.
02-16-2022
Michael Bayer
I support this bill. In particular, I am strongly in support of the ban on private funds for public election administration. Using private funds for public election administration is like the fox guarding the henhouse. Private funds can easily sway the administration of elections. Multiple studies have shown that the funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other activist nonprofit organizations fueled by 100's of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg and other wealthy liberals was given disproportionately in jurisdictions that voted for Biden in the 2020 election compared to Trump. We cannot allow this type of influence in our elections to undermine the confidence of the American people in our elections. I also support the efforts to insure the absentee ballots are submitted by the actual voter by requiring the voter identification number in multiple places on the envelopes associated with the absentee ballot. This helps to insure that the absentee voter's ballot is not hijacked by others. I support the publication by the county commissioner of the date, time and location of the postelection audit along with the announcement of the election. Please advance this bill to the full House State Government Committee.