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Iowa made it harder to request an absentee ballot. Many gave up
When Duane Earll and his wife Jean applied for absentee ballots a couple weeks before Iowa’s primary in June, he says he put their applications in the mail thinking they would arrive at the elections office in a day or two. But several days later, someone …