Dealing from the Top of the Deck 0
The Des Moines Register’s Kathie Obradovich discusses a new twist in the Republican gut-out-the-vote playbook. A snippet:
This may not seem like a huge deal to people who take time to learn who’s running for office before they show up to vote. But the fact is, numerous studies have shown that the party whose candidates come first on the ballot have an advantage.
Senate File 2346 would require county auditors to put partisan candidates on the election ballot according to the results of the last governor’s election. So if Republicans won the governor’s race in that county, as they did in all but Johnson County in 2014, their candidates would top the ballot.
