https://iafactcheck.com/ Latest IA Fact Check updates on Iowa 2026 candidate claims, campaign ads, voting records, endorsements and voter-help resources. en-us https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-kirkwood-public-measure-nc 2026-08-18T10:20:00-05:00-kirkwood-public-measure-nc Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:20:00 +0000 Johnson County’s official General Election page now publishes Public Measure NC, an $88 million Kirkwood Community College bond question affecting voters in 18 counties; it requires 60% approval. Final precinct sample ballots are still expected later. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-cedar-county 2026-08-18T09:26:00-05:00-cedar-county-general-election-guidance Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:26:00 +0000 Cedar County’s official November 3 General Election page lists absentee-voting dates, extended auditor-office hours, Election Day polling hours and an official polling-locations document. The county says more ballot-availability information will be posted closer to Election Day; no finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-cerro-gordo-county 2026-08-18T08:28:00-05:00-cerro-gordo-county-general-election-guidance Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:28:00 +0000 Cerro Gordo County’s official November 3 General Election page lists Election Day voting hours plus absentee and registration deadlines and links the county precinct list. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-delaware-county 2026-08-18T07:17:00-05:00-delaware-county-general-election-guidance Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:17:00 +0000 Delaware County’s official November 3 General Election page lists absentee-voting, registration and Election Day dates. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-jasper-county 2026-08-18T06:32:00-05:00-jasper-county-general-election-guidance Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:32:00 +0000 Jasper County’s official election resources list 20 voting precincts with polling locations plus key absentee and registration deadlines. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is listed yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-mitchell-county 2026-08-18T05:15:00-05:00-mitchell-county-general-election-guidance Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:15:00 +0000 Mitchell County’s official November 3 General Election page lists 7:00 AM–8:00 PM Election Day voting, absentee-voting dates and extended auditor-office hours. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is listed yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-crawford-county 2026-08-18T04:18:00-05:00-crawford-county-polling-locations Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:18:00 +0000 Crawford County’s official November 3 General Election page lists all eight precinct groupings, Election Day polling locations, absentee-voting deadlines and 7:00 AM–8:00 PM poll hours. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/derek-wulf.html#media-house-76-ballot-replacement https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/derek-wulf.html#media-house-76-ballot-replacement Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:13:00 -0500 Official Iowa candidate records list Matt Reisetter as the Republican House District 76 candidate after Derek Wulf became the GOP lieutenant-governor nominee; IA Fact Check treats the change as ballot status, not misconduct. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-shelby-county 2026-08-18T03:13:00-05:00-shelby-county-polling-locations Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:25:00 +0000 Shelby County’s official November 3 General Election page lists six precinct/polling-location groupings and addresses. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-hancock-county 2026-08-18T01:14:00-05:00-hancock-county-polling-locations Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:14:00 +0000 Hancock County’s official November 3 General Election page lists all 10 Election Day precinct locations plus absentee-voting and registration deadlines. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-jones-county 2026-08-18T00:12:00-05:00-jones-county-polling-locations Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:12:00 +0000 Jones County’s official November 3 General Election page lists eight Election Day polling locations and key absentee-voting deadlines. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-lucas-county 2026-08-17T23:12:00-05:00-lucas-county-polling-locations Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:12:00 +0000 Lucas County’s official November 3 General Election page now lists Election Day polling locations for all seven precincts. No finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballot is posted there yet. https://iafactcheck.com/#candidate=rick-stewart&anchor=attack-ad-rfk-kennedy-dropout-call https://iafactcheck.com/#candidate=rick-stewart&anchor=attack-ad-rfk-kennedy-dropout-call Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:14:00 GMT Recorded outreach to Rick Stewart and reported outreach to Marco Battaglia are documented. Sen. Ron Wyden’s Hatch Act complaint is included while explicit quid pro quo, campaign coordination and a legal violation remain unresolved. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/zach-nunn.html#media-hegseth-state-fair-campaign 2026-08-17T20:11:00-05:00-zach-nunn-hegseth-state-fair Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:11:00 +0000 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a campaign speech for Zach Nunn at the Iowa State Fair and said he was appearing in a personal capacity. IA Fact Check documents the endorsement and OSC guidance without treating the appearance alone as an established Hatch Act violation. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/josh-turek.html#media-jstreetpac-blue-iowa-fundraiser 2026-08-17T15:16:00-05:00-jstreetpac-blue-iowa-fundraiser Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:16:00 +0000 JStreetPAC lists Josh Turek, Christina Bohannan, Lindsay James and Sarah Trone Garriott as supported candidates for an Aug. 26 virtual fundraiser. The PAC page also says it is not authorized by any candidate committee, so IA Fact Check does not treat the event as proof of coordination or improper influence. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/zach-lahn.html#media-mrna-vaccine-ban-position 2026-08-17T10:13:00-05:00-zach-lahn-mrna-vaccine-ban Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:13:00 +0000 Lahn’s support for pulling COVID shots and banning mRNA vaccines is documented. FDA confirms a real myocarditis/pericarditis risk, while licensed mRNA vaccines exist and household studies show vaccination did not eliminate transmission but did have measurable transmission effects. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/zach-lahn.html#media-land-ownership-25-percent-claim 2026-08-17T10:13:00-05:00-zach-lahn-land-ownership-25-percent Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:25:00 +0000 ISU data support a 25% combined share for Iowa farmland owned by part-time residents or nonresidents, but that category is broader than the campaign phrase “out-of-state investors and foreign governments”; foreign interests are much smaller and separately tracked. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/rob-sand.html#media-acs-can-cancer-questionnaire 2026-08-17T07:31:00-05:00-governor-acs-can-cancer-questionnaire Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:31:00 +0000 Sand’s direct ACS CAN answers on Medicaid, follow-up breast-cancer screening, HPV vaccination and tobacco taxes are now documented; Lahn had not yet submitted questionnaire answers as of Aug. 17 and is scheduled for an ACS CAN cancer forum Aug. 18. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/josh-turek.html#media-hinson-matters-attendance 2026-08-17T04:27:00-05:00-josh-turek-hinson-matters-ad Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:27:00 +0000 Hinson’s new statewide ad has a factual basis for Turek’s missed-roll-call rate in a defined 2026 period, but “skips work half the time” is broader than the attendance record proves and the “Iowans don’t care” portrayal requires source-context caution. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/joe-mitchell.html#media-homestead-tax-credit-residency 2026-08-17T02:28:00-05:00-joe-mitchell-homestead-tax-credit Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:28:00 +0000 Reported Henry County and Des Moines records raise a homestead-credit eligibility question under Iowa's six-month occupancy rule, but IA Fact Check did not locate an assessor ruling, repayment order or fraud finding establishing a violation. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/zach-lahn.html#media-wsj-state-fair-polling-trend 2026-08-16T23:27:00-05:00-zach-lahn-state-fair-polling-trend Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:27:00 +0000 Lahn said “The trend is that we’re closing the gap.” Public summer polls located all show Sand ahead, but different pollsters and overlapping field periods do not establish a comparable closing trend. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/christina-bohannan.html#media-q2-2026-fec-finance-snapshot 2026-08-16T19:16:00-05:00-house-q2-fec-finance-snapshot Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:16:00 +0000 Added June 30 FEC cash-on-hand, total-receipts and total-disbursement records for Christina Bohannan, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Sarah Trone Garriott and Zach Nunn, with campaign finance labeled as public record rather than evidence of wrongdoing. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html#media-smp-17m-fall-healthcare-campaign 2026-08-16T18:25:00-05:00-hinson-smp-17m-fall-campaign Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:25:00 +0000 Senate Majority PAC added $17 million in Iowa fall advertising on top of an earlier $13.4 million reservation; IA Fact Check separates documented health-law effects from campaign rhetoric and preserves the law’s $50 billion rural-health program as material context. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-story-county 2026-08-16T12:26:00-05:00-story-county-supervisor-district-voting Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:26:00 +0000 Story County will elect all three county supervisors by district in 2026 instead of at large; voters cast a supervisor vote only in their own district, with official district and precinct maps linked. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/rob-sand.html#media-state-fair-heckling-bathroom-rumor 2026-08-16T10:23:00-05:00-rob-sand-state-fair-bathroom-rumor Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:23:00 +0000 Video supports sustained heckling/following and a police escort; the claim that Sand was scared and hiding in a restroom is an opposition participant’s characterization and is not independently established. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/chris-jones.html#media-guardian-cancer-water-policy 2026-08-16T07:28:00-05:00-iowa-cancer-policy-records-expanded Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:28:00 +0000 New statewide reporting prompted a primary-source cross-check of specific cancer/water policy proposals and Mike Naig’s pre-office Monsanto government-affairs record, with no unsupported causation or wrongdoing inference. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html#media-pork-industry-contributions 2026-08-16T06:17:00-05:00-ashley-hinson-pork-industry-contribution-scrutiny-added Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:17:00 +0000 Added the reported $65,350 five-year pork-industry-linked contribution total alongside Hinson's Save Our Bacon record, while separating documented financial/policy alignment from unsupported donor-influence claims. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-pottawattamie-county 2026-08-16T04:17:00-05:00-pottawattamie-general-election-guidance Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:17:00 +0000 Pottawattamie County now lists official absentee and early-voting dates, a Saturday voting opportunity and Election Day hours; finalized General Election sample ballots are not yet posted. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-black-hawk-county 2026-08-16T02:10:00-05:00-black-hawk-supervisor-district-voting Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:10:00 +0000 Black Hawk County will elect all five supervisors by district in 2026 instead of at large; voters cast a supervisor vote only in their own district, with official district and precinct guidance linked. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html#voter-help-dallas-county 2026-08-15T20:24:00-05:00-dallas-county-polling-location-changes Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:24:00 +0000 Dallas County now lists 2026 General Election polling places, four changed locations and early-voting/absentee deadlines; no finalized General Election sample ballot is posted yet. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html#media-epstein-file-donor-contributions 2026-08-15T19:22:00-05:00-ashley-hinson-epstein-file-donor-contribution-scrutiny Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:22:00 +0000 Added FEC-linked contribution reporting, petition context and Hinson’s later Aye vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, while separating association from proof of wrongdoing. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/rob-sand.html 2026-08-15T14:19:00-05:00-rob-sand-abortion-week-roe-exchange-added Fri, 15 Aug 2026 19:19:00 +0000 The Atlantic reports Sand did not name a specific week when pressed at a Newton town hall; historical context shows his life-begins-at-breath religious argument dates to 2018. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html 2026-08-13T03:11:00-05:00-ashley-hinson-one-nation-over-9-000-tv-claim-checked Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:11:00 +0000 Verified the airing TV creative and traced its take-home-pay figure to CEA economic modeling; the vote is real, but the $9,000+ outcome is modeled rather than guaranteed. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html 2026-08-12T14:47:00-05:00-ashley-hinson-health-care-hospital-attack-ad-fully-reviewed Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:47:00 +0000 Added the original DSCC video and separated the supported Medicaid coverage-loss claim from the more qualified hospital-closure causation claim. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/zach-nunn.html 2026-08-12T14:47:00-05:00-zach-nunn-tax-cut-claims-expanded-with-distributional-context Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:47:00 +0000 Added CBO context on who benefits, the “every family” claim, Medicaid enrollment effects and SNAP reductions. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/josh-turek.html 2026-08-12T12:05:00-05:00-josh-turek-obama-endorsement-basketball-video-added Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:05:00 +0000 Added the original campaign video and independent AP verification of the July 29 endorsement. https://iafactcheck.com/voter-help.html 2026-08-12T11:42:00-05:00-iowa-voter-help-added-official-poll-finder-sample-ballot-guidance Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:42:00 +0000 New voter-help section links directly to Iowa's official polling-place search and official county-auditor sample-ballot resources. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/josh-turek.html 2026-08-12T11:12:00-05:00-josh-turek-work-without-worry-policy-record-added Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:12:00 +0000 Added his Iowa legislation and federal proposal addressing Medicaid income/asset limits for employed people with disabilities. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/rob-sand.html 2026-08-12T10:12:00-05:00-rob-sand-kids-online-safety-plan-added Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:12:00 +0000 Under-16 social-media ban proposal, parental consent rules, algorithm audits and minors’ privacy protections. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/ashley-hinson.html 2026-08-12T10:12:00-05:00-ashley-hinson-statewide-debate-commitments-added Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:12:00 +0000 Accepted Iowa PBS and Nexstar invitations for two general-election debates against Josh Turek. https://iafactcheck.com/candidates/joe-mitchell.html 2026-08-11T15:35:00-05:00-joe-mitchell-mar-a-lago-campaign-spending-scrutiny-added Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:35:00 +0000 Added reported campaign expenditures, current FEC context and source trail.