STUDY SHOWS 22% OF IOWANS LACK HIGH INTERNET SPEED Mar. 1, 2017 Cedar Rapids Gazette reports: Roughly 1 in 5 Iowans do not have access to the broadband internet speed recommended by the federal government, and those who are underserved mostly live in rural areas. In addition to the luxuries afforded by broadband internet – streaming movies and music and playing online games – access to broadband also can be important for education and health care, industry experts say.
Category: Iowa
Voter fraud
A woman who was arrested after voting twice for Donald Trump – and in the process becoming a flash point in the voter fraud debate – is incompetent to stand trial, her attorney said in a motion filed in Iowa court. Terri Lynn Rote, 56, was accused in late October of casting two ballots in the general election: an early-voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office and another at a county satellite voting location, according to police records.