DES MOINES, Iowa — Absentee ballot requests have been available for voters to fill out for the past month ahead of the October 16 mail date for the ballots.

Both major political parties and third party organizations send a plethora of voting information out to voters, along with absentee ballot requests. One specific vendor for the Iowa Democratic Party sent out mailers that were having a difficult time getting processed by post offices.

A local voter reached out to WHO 13 News on Monday saying that she received another absentee ballot request form after sending in the first one from the Iowa Democrats. She was confused at first, but filled it out and mailed it in again. The new form said “You recently received an absentee ballot application from the Iowa Democratic Party. Due to new postal regulations, a first-class postage stamp was not sufficient to process the previous application.”

The Iowa Democratic Party said that the forms are being mailed out again to the same voters who received the first one to make sure those who want one can get an absentee ballot.

“That has been an issue for us that we are confident that we are resolving,” said Rita Hart, Chair of the Iowa Democrats. “There was a change in postal regulations that took our vendor by surprise. And so those absentee ballot requests have been sent out again. And we have worked with our county auditors across the state to resolve that issue. So we are confident that we can resolve all the concerns around that.”

Several county auditors told WHO 13 News that the issue was not widespread, just a few smaller counties experienced the form issue. The specific problem was that the absentee ballot form was too small and it would not process at post offices correctly.

For those interested in absentee voting or voting information in general, visit the Iowa Secretary of State’s website.

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