Free Speech For People sent a letter to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds urging a veto of HF 928, a bill that would significantly limit the ability of Iowans to seek recounts in elections with close or anomalous results.

The letter cautioned:

Iowa’s elections are verifiable and recountable because votes are recorded primarily on hand-marked paper ballots that provide a durable, voter-verified physical record of voter intent that can be recounted…

Limiting the ability to seek recounts of the paper ballots by hand recounts will make Iowa’s election results almost entirely reliant on computerized tabulators. But tabulators are not infallible and can miscount votes due to software bugs, programming errors, misconfigurations or even malicious tampering. Significant or subtle miscounts have occurred even when machines have passed pre-election testing.3 Ensuring candidates and citizens can seek recounts in close elections is an essential element to the integrity of the election process.

Free Speech For People joined Iowans for Verified Voting and VerifiedVoting.org and a half dozen leading election and auditing experts in calling on the governor to veto the bill.

The letter can be viewed here.