There is high interest in early voting by people in next week’s Iowa Legislature special election in Woodbury County.
Early voting has been underway for some days in that Iowa Senate District 1 seat, and on election day on August 26, polls will be open from 7 am to 8 pm.
Woodbury County Deputy Commissioner of Elections Steve Hofmeyer said, as of Wednesday, 2,467 voters had requested early ballots, and 2,006 of those had been returned.
The Republican nominee is Christopher Prosch, a Sioux City man who runs a media consulting firm.
The Democrat in the state senate race is Catelin Drey, who is an account supervisor at Antidote 71 and founder of Moms for Iowa.
There are just over 31,800 registered voters in Iowa Senate District 1 portion of Woodbury County, with 10,697 Republicans and 9,828 Democrats.
The special election for the Iowa Senate District 1 seat is needed because of the late June death of state senator Rocky DeWitt, a Republican of Lawton, at age 66.
