Voting for the 2014 General Election in Iowa starts today. Matt Schultz, the state’s commissioner of elections, says over 130-thousand Iowans requested an absentee ballot before the “early voting” period even started. The number of absentee ballot requests is more than double what it was during the last midterm election in 2010. Schultz predicts early voting will increase again in 2014. Iowa Democrats have scheduled 13 different “kickoff” events around the state today to mark the start of early voting. Five Republican candidates running for statewide office this year will be together today, making stops at G-O-P events in five cities. There are a few ways to vote early in Iowa. You can go to your county auditor’s office and vote in person there. You can request an absentee ballot through the mail and, once you’ve marked up that ballot, you can either mail it back or deliver it in person to the county auditor’s office. Finally, many county auditors are setting up temporary “satellite” sites where voters can cast ballots.

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