[Tall-Corn] Iowa Voting Issue Hot Line

[Richard]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2025, Intesar wrote:

> I was able to vote by using the voting machine and of course with some
> difficulties at first in explaining to them what I needed. Everything went
> OK, but why my ballot looks different from everybody else and why we have to
> feed it into the machine in a separate slot? I tried to insert it in the
> same place where my husband inserted his and it spitted it back out, saying
> that it too short, so the worker had to interfere and tell me to insert it
> in a different place because it’s thinner and shorter. This is not right,
> it’s like them knowing for sure who voted because my ballot is different.
> this is not secrecy. I almost do not want to use the machine and let my
> husband help me so I could be using the regular ballot like everyone else. I
> thought they were fixing this problem. So how can I truly be independent in
> voting?  
THose of you who were at the 2024 convention remember me addressing this 
issue with the representative of the secretary of state who spoke to us.
At the time I got a lot of um ur uh stammer stutter funny noises but 
little else.

AS for why this is so, as I just commented to April, our civics literacy 
is at an all time low, just look at the results of the 2024 election.

AS for secret ballot, A woman from the secretary of state's office called 
to follow up onm y complaint yesterday and I had to explain the concept of 
secret ballot to her.

No surprise there.
Just remember, the January sixth rioters are supposed to be considered 
patriots; and hate is to be preached from the pulpit.
We truly live in dangerous times folks.  And, I ask the question of the 
old civil war song.  "Whose side are you on?"



Richard