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Hello and

this is Wednesday, August 14th, 2024,

and this is a special episode of The Excerpt. the excerpt. In response to former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election in 2020,

many state legislatures implemented new laws restricting voter access to curtail the non-existent

fraud.

Will this make it harder for registered Americans who are legally allowed to vote to cast

their ballots in November.

USA Today Democracy reporter Aaron Mansfield and her colleagues have spent the past

five months digging into legislation and rule changes across the country

and she is a reporting with us now.

Thanks for being on the excerpt, Erin.

Thank you for having me.

You reported on some sweeping changes that have taken place in Iowa. So let's begin there who

sponsored this legislation and what was in it? Yeah, so Iowa is a state that

Barack Obama run twice and then so did Donald Trump. And what happened, actually just a few months after the 2020 election,

Republicans in the legislature spearheaded a very sweeping bill.

It had a lot of different parts in it. It had stuff on

absentee voting, on early in-person voting, on how late polls are open on election

day, on how much time you can take off from work on election day to go vote.

It was really sweeping.

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