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Article snippet: ANKENY, IOWA — Sen. MORE (D-Calif.) pressed Iowa Democrats on Monday to take advantage of early voting as she stumped for Democrats across the Hawkeye State two weeks before the midterm elections. “Let’s bank those votes, get them done,” Harris said at an event at Des Moines Area Community College. The auditorium where she spoke was nearby the campus’s early voting location, and information about early voting was displayed on a projector screen behind her and the other speakers. Democrats in Iowa have been pushing to get young voters, who often are more liberal, to cast their ballots early in the midterm elections. Getting young voters to the polling booths could determine whether the party wins a handful of competitive House seats as Democrats seek to win back the chamber’s majority this fall. Democrats need to gain 23 seats to win the majority, and three of Iowa’s four congressional districts are currently GOP-held and seen as competitive. The fourth is held by a Democrat. Harris, making her first campaign visit to Iowa since 2008, is seeking to help Democrat Cindy Axne, who is challenging GOP Rep. MORE in Iowa’s third congressional district. “There were years where certain folks couldn’t vote, in particular African Americans and women,” Harris said at the event at the community college, located in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny. “And so because of that, so many of us, we take it very seriously, voting, and we almost have ceremonies about voting on election... Link to the full article to read more