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Eldridge voters head to the polls
Voters lined up at the Eldridge branch of the Scott County Library Tuesday morning to cast ballots in this year’s midterm elections.
Robert Barenthin said he planned to vote straight-ticket Republican.
“I just don’t agree with Democratic values,” he said. He cited “men in women’s sports” as one of his most important issues.
John Lawrence said “it’s a privilege to vote, so I always try to.” He had gone to the polls with the economy top of mind.
Lawrence said the private ballot was important, and he declined to share his vote.
Joanna Neumann said she planned to vote for Rob Sand, Democratic candidate for governor.
“I just want somebody to focus on less division. Let’s get back to the roots of what really matters,” she said of Sand. “I think he’s a good bipartisan who will get prices back to what they need to be.
“There has been so much hatred and division. Let’s get back to how it was in 1992,” she added.
Heather Doray said she was motivated to vote for Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor. “just because my political beliefs align more with Republicans than with Democrats.”
She also planned to vote for U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and State Rep. Mike Vondran. She said both had replied to a message she sent their offices this summer, regarding difficulties with the post office.
Miller-Meeks’s office was able to resolve the difficulties for her, she said.
Pete and Ann Klopp said they had gone to the polls to do their “civic duty.”
“We always have and we probably always will,” Ann said
Pete said he planned to vote “no” on Amendment 1, which would require a two-thirds majority in the state legislature to increase corporate income taxes or create new income taxes.
“I think it’s the wrong thing to do,” he said.
Doug Petersma said he thought his choice for the senate would restore checks and balances, though he asked not to have that choice appear in the paper.
“I think overall government spending is a problem. I’m concerned that the executive branch doesn’t have a check on it,” he said.
Brett Morgan said he was “voting conservative against democratic socialists, preserving America as we know it.”
He was excited about Lahn but said he was considering voting for Democrats or Independents in down ballot races. He would “take a hard look, he said.
Several voters said they were voting to stave off “chaos.”
“I hate what’s going on with the world with all the violences, fires, looting, and disorder,” Eric Gruenhagen said. “Look at Europe—that is a full representation of elections having consequences.”
He declined to say how he planned to vote. “My religion and my politics is my business,” he said.
“You have all these lies and all these other states doing dumb things,” said an elderly woman, who did not give her name. “We don’t want to be like foreign countries.”
She also declined to specify her vote.