"People find it much easier if they can choose the time to vote ... rather than show up on one day of the week, " said Tom Slockett, Johnson County, Iowa, commissioner of elections and the county's voting auditor.
"We pay wages, we negotiate contracts, we pay for health benefits for staff, " says Ted Kamatchus, sheriff of rural Marshall County, Iowa, which is facing huge shortfalls from mortgage foreclosures and unemployment.