The Iowa election commissioner announced on Tuesday that his business had identified 87 people who had already cast ballots in elections and had self-reported to be noncitizens.
Secretary of State Paul Pate stated in a statement that it is “absolutely crucial that qualified individuals are able to vote and that we are not disenfranchising any available citizens.
The 87 foreign citizens were discovered as part of a typical assessment of the country’s voter rolls, according to a press release from the office. The study also uncovered 67 self-reported noncitizens who registered to vote, but did not cast vote in elections. According to Pate, these individuals ‘ names are being” to the Iowa Attorney General and the Iowa Department of Public Safety for potential prosecution.”
The audit also found 2, 022 folks” who have self-reported they are not people and voted or registered to vote after self-reporting”. According to Pate Communications Director Ashley Hunt Esquivel, according to the left-wing Iowa Capital Dispatch,” there may be people in this group who have been naturalized as U.S. people since reporting their reputation to the Iowa [ Department of Transportation ] and who are legitimately eligible to vote.”
In the launch, Pate stated that his company has instructed county auditors to ensure that only authorized Americans cast ballots in the 2024 election. If these people cast ballots in the November election, state examiners are instructed to” challenge the ballots” they do. According to the minister, these voters, whose enrollment remains in topic, will only be able to cast temporary ballots.
” We will work with the authorities to ensure that those who break the law are prosecuted to the fullest extent,” Pate said.” It is a criminal for noncitizens to either ballot or register to vote.
The disclosures on Tuesday follow a lawsuit filed by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird after she was found guilty of casting a ballot in a regional election earlier this year. As The Federalist’s Breccan Thies reported, Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez was charged” with two counts of election misconduct … —’ registering to vote and improperly voting on the same day, July 16, 2024, in a particular election for the Marshalltown City Council,’ as outlined in]an business ] hit transfer”.
After noting how his office had “run into roadblocks from the federal government,” Pate said,” we will be working with both ] the state’s ] Attorney General and Iowa’s Congressional Delegation to ensure the federal government gives us the tools to ensure with certainty that a noncitizen is able to register and vote in Iowa elections.
For “roadblocks”, he indicated, have been encountered by” state across the country that are involved in lawsuits with the Department of Justice and federal government agencies”.
The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Virginia earlier this month to stop it from removing noncitizens and another unsuitable voters from the state’s voter rolls, according to The Federalist. The law was passed in response to activities by the GOP governor. In order to make sure only registered U.S. members are listed on the voter registration names during the 2024 vote period, Glenn Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Elections have done so.
Youngkin criticized the government’s complaint as” a desperate attempt to attack the validity of the votes in the Commonwealth” and claimed that the state would “defend these sensible actions, that we are legally required to take, using every tool accessible.”
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The Federalist team author Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a condition content writer for Agreement of States Action and his work has been featured in various stores, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Following him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood