State elections officials have received challenges to eight candidates’ nominating paperwork that could, if upheld, remove those candidates from Iowa ballots for the 2022 elections.
Any Iowa resident in the political district in which a candidate is running can challenge a candidate’s nominating paperwork.
Challenges are considered by a state panel, which will meet Tuesday. If the panel determines the candidate’s paperwork does not meet state requirements, that candidate’s paperwork is nullified, which would take them off the ballot.
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Eight challenges have been filed after the candidate filing period ended just more than a week ago. The candidates being challenged are:
The specific challenges cover a range of clerical objections, including that forms were not completed as required, signers’ addresses were incomplete, and some signatures were duplicated, among other objections.
The objections to the Finkenauer, Miller, Rozenboom, and Shipley campaign signatures were filed on behalf of resident objectors by Alan Ostergren, a prominent attorney in conservative politics.
The State Objection Panel is comprised of the Iowa Secretary of State (the state’s top elections official), Attorney General and Auditor.
Currently, those offices are occupied by Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate, Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller, and Democratic Auditor Rob Sand.
In 2018, the panel disqualified former Cedar Rapids mayor Ron Corbett from the ballot after it ruled he did not have a sufficient number of properly documented signatures. Corbett was running to challenge Gov. Kim Reynolds in the Republican primary.
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Any Iowa resident in the political district in which a candidate is running can challenge a candidate’s nominating paperwork.
Challenges are considered by a state panel, which will meet Tuesday. If the panel determines the candidate’s paperwork does not meet state requirements, that candidate’s paperwork is nullified, which would take them off the ballot.
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Eight challenges have been filed after the candidate filing period ended just more than a week ago. The candidates being challenged are:
- Abby Finkenauer, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
- Mike Franken, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
- Tom Miller, Democratic candidate for Attorney General
- Kyle Kuehl, Republican candidate for U.S. House District 1
- Jack Whitver, Republican candidate for Iowa Senate District 23
- Ken Rozenboom, Republican candidate for Iowa Senate District 19
- Jeff Shipley, Republican candidate for Iowa House District 87
- Anthony LaBruna, Republican candidate for Iowa Senate District 3
The specific challenges cover a range of clerical objections, including that forms were not completed as required, signers’ addresses were incomplete, and some signatures were duplicated, among other objections.
The objections to the Finkenauer, Miller, Rozenboom, and Shipley campaign signatures were filed on behalf of resident objectors by Alan Ostergren, a prominent attorney in conservative politics.
The State Objection Panel is comprised of the Iowa Secretary of State (the state’s top elections official), Attorney General and Auditor.
Currently, those offices are occupied by Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate, Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller, and Democratic Auditor Rob Sand.
In 2018, the panel disqualified former Cedar Rapids mayor Ron Corbett from the ballot after it ruled he did not have a sufficient number of properly documented signatures. Corbett was running to challenge Gov. Kim Reynolds in the Republican primary.
Finkenauer, Franken, Miller, Whitver among candidate challenges
Challenges are considered by a state panel, which will meet Tuesday. If the panel determines the candidate’s paperwork does not meet state requirements, that candidate’s paperwork is nullified, which would take them off the ballot.
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