DES MOINES – Iowa voters are sending a record-tying number of women to the state Legislature next week. The 25 women elected to the Iowa House and the 10 women who will serve in the Iowa Senate ties the record of 35 female legislators that was set in the 2009 session. “Overall, 2012 turned out [...]

DES MOINES – State election officials confirmed Monday that the 1,589,899 Iowans who cast ballots last month was a record turnout for a presidential election. The Iowa Executive Council, acting as the state’s Board of Canvass, approved 2012 general election results compiled by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office that showed 73.28 percent of the [...]

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said Monday he may ask state lawmakers to consider implementing a signature verification system, given that nearly half of Iowans who voted in the Nov. 6 general election did so by voting early or casting absentee ballots. The Republican state elections commissioner said he is exploring the possibility of [...]

Gov. Terry Branstad and top legislative leaders pledged bipartisan cooperation Wednesday after voters kept Democrats in control of the Iowa Senate and narrowed the GOP majority in the Iowa House for the next two years. “Iowa voters once again chose divided government, and their message was unmistakable: They want us to work together in moving [...]

  It was another record year for absentee voting. Before dawn even broke on Election Day in Iowa, an estimated 40 percent of the votes were in. The Des Moines Register reports the Secretary of State’s office had received more than 637,000 early votes by the time the polls opened today — a 35 percent [...]

DES MOINES — President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan punctuated their 2012 campaigns with high-energy rallies Monday they each hope will deliver the final push that will propel them across the finish line in Iowa today. Thousands of Obama supporters filled the downtown streets last night around an East Village building [...]

  DES MOINES – GOP president candidate Mitt Romney told cheering Iowa supporters Sunday he’s counting on them to help punch his ticket to the White House on Tuesday. “I need your vote, I need your work, I need your help,” Romney told about 4,500 enthusiastic Iowans who turned out at Hy-Vee Hall for a [...]

DES MOINES – Democrats boarded a bus Tuesday to make a final statewide sweep to close the deal for President Obama with Iowa voters and to implore them to cast their ballots early. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said America has gone “from the brink” of economic disaster in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers “went broke” [...]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will take aim at President Obama’s rural record when he addresses supporters at a central Iowa farm Tuesday. “We already ask our farmers and ranchers to cope with natural disasters,” Romney said in remarks prepared for delivery at a campaign rally at the James and Margaret Koch farm. “They should [...]