Also in today’s Jolt:

A Tiny Bit of Law-Breaking by Iowa Democrats
Out in Iowa, the state Democratic party released a web video of Senator Tom Harkin filling out his early-vote ballot:
According to this news report in Iowa, “taking photos or video of your own marked ballot is illegal in Iowa.”
The law declares: “The use of cameras, cellular telephones, pagers, or other electronic communications devices in the voting booth is prohibited.” The Iowa Democratic party may argue that because Harkin isn’t inside a voting booth, they’re in the clear. But if the law aims to prevent taking pictures of completed ballots, and it’s illegal to take picture of the ballot in the booth on Election Day . . . why is it okay to take a picture of the completed ballot for absentee voting?