The order granting the Trump Campaign a temporary injunction and invalidating my absentee ballot request is absolute trash. The Court is simply willing to assume that other counties could not afford to do what Linn County has done without real evidence.

This is what is used to justify some type of injury. The court must assume it knows what will happen in the November election - how one county will vote versus another. I do not know what justification it would have for assuming the way people will vote.

Iowa Courts have recently, specifically, declined to assume how individuals will vote in the Rush v. Reynolds and Duff v. Reynolds litigation.

Also, budgets are matters of priorities and choices. Counties certainly may tax or reallocate tax dollars to fund the type of absentee ballot request forms as utilized by Linn County. The finding of standing is simply unjustified.

Next, despite a series of restrictive new measures passed by the Legislature, and no prohibition on what the Linn County Auditor has done, the Court seems to assume it is illegal anyway.

The law says an Auditor may not fill in a form when a voter makes mistakes. The law says nothing about sending a form so mistakes are not made. One common rule of statutory construction is expressio unius est exclusio alterious.

The expression of one thing is the exclusion of another. In 2016, in Homan v. Branstad, the Supreme Court said "we will not consider what the legislature should have or might have said when it constructed a statute...

legislative intent is expressed by omission as well as by inclusion, and the express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of others not so mentioned." So, as the legislature has acted to limit access to absentee voting and limit

what a county auditor may do to correct deficiencies or facilitate absentee voting, it is just trash for a Court to assume that other items the Legislature did not prohibit ought to be prohibited.

The Court finds the Sec. of State may direct county auditors to only issue blank forms despite 53.2(2)(a) which says anybody can create their own form so long as the proper data is provided.

And lastly, when it gets to balancing harms if a temporary injunction is not granted, the Court ONLY considers the harm to the Linn County Auditor's office of having to do a bit more work...

AND IGNORES THE HARM TO LINN COUNTY VOTERS WHO BELIEVE THEY HAVE DONE WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO VOTE BY MAIL.

The decision is complete horseshit.