With early voting under way in Iowa Thursday, both parties are looking to bank as many votes as possible heading into election day. One method the parties are employing: petitioning to add more voting stations, ideally in places with heavy concentrations of supporters.Iowa law allows campaigns to submit petitions of at least 100 voters to their county auditor to request extra polling stations where locals can register to vote and cast absentee ballots on site. Dates and locations are flexible, so partisans on both sides are trying to negotiate with local officials for the most effective arrangements: for example, Republicans might try to arrange early voting at an evangelical church on Sunday, while Democrats set up a polling site at a Mexican grocery store on a busy Saturday.
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