Iowa Appeals Ruling Allowing Voting Forms In Spanish

First, a reminder about June’s court ruling:

On June 29, 2023 an Iowa court ruled that Iowa’s English-only law does not apply to voting materials and dissolved the previous injunction that prohibited the Iowa secretary of state from providing non-English voter registration forms. As a result of this ruling, counties will now be permitted to provide voting materials— including voter registration forms, absentee ballot applications and ballots — in languages other than English.

And today we have an update.

Imagine deciding to appeal a court ruling ALLOWING (not requiring) counties to provide election materials in languages other than English as well as in English.

The GOP is completely broken. https://t.co/kJjuBd83Xp

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 30, 2023

🚨BREAKING: Iowa Court GRANTS @LULAC of Iowa’s petition striking down application of state’s English only law to voting materials paving the way for election officials to offer Spanish language registration and other publications.https://t.co/4oSGlauY3H

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 29, 2023