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Related: About this forumPolk County ballots contain spelling error on constitutional amendment
The Iowa Secretary of States office is determining whether a spelling error in the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment on Polk County ballots would create any problems in counting those votes.
As early voting began Wednesday, some ballots in Polk County contained a typo in its section on the constitutional amendment related to the gubernatorial line of succession. The constitutional amendment reads:
Lieutenant governor or lieutenant governor-elect to become or act as governor or governor-elect.
If there is a temporary disability of the governor, the lieutenant governor shall act as governor until the disability is removed, or the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office. In case of the death, resignation, or removal from office of the governor, the lieutenant governor shall become governor for the remainder of the term, which shall create a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor. This section shall also apply, as appropriate, to the governor-elect and the lieutenant governor-elect.
On at least some Polk County ballots cast in early voting, the word until was misspelled as unitl.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/10/17/polk-county-ballots-contain-spelling-error-on-constitutional-amendment/
rsdsharp
(10,082 posts)which usually votes Democratic.
Diraven
(994 posts)If the amendment gets struck down because of this expect GOP state officials to "accidentally misspell" all kinds of amendments they don't personally approve of.
progressoid
(50,712 posts)That's a depressing thought