After the state’s national authorities refused to provide a list of noncitizens registered to cast ballots before the 2024 votes, Iowa vote authorities sued the Biden administration.  ,
According to Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate and Attorney General Brenna Bird, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials on Tuesday refused to hand over a list of noncitizens who had been illegally registered to vote in Iowa despite having confirmed that thousands of noncitizens were on the state’s voting rolls after a mechanical individualized process. The Department of Homeland Security and USCIS, its subsidiary, are the subjects of the issue.
State representatives rather checked voter rolls against a less trustworthy list of 2, 176 persons who had registered as noncitizens with the Iowa Department of Transportation without USCIS data.  ,
Iowa’s statewide voter registration system does not contain any of the” DHS-issued immigration identifier]s ]” the USCIS has access to, the defendants said, often making it difficult to identify noncitizen voters.  ,
According to Pate and Bird, Iowa election officials forced the 2, 176 people in question to present proof of citizenship or cast a temporary vote during the primaries in order to have their votes counted without having enough information to freely screen potential illegal voters.
The two Iowa officials stated in a mutual release on Wednesday that” USCIS’s loss meant that the State had to depend on the best — inadequate — information it had available to ensure that no Iowan’s ballot was canceled by an illegitimate, noncitizen ballot.”  ,
The Washington Examiner contacted USCIS for reply, but it was still unresponsive when it was published.
If Iowa wins in court, it may involve USCIS to launch the lists in question and for provincial officials to discuss the state’s requested information on noncitizen voters.  ,
The ability to evaluate using social security numbers, as well as access to the Protect list, and citizenship verification previously completed by USCIS, will not only create processes more efficient, but it will also give us another crucial tool in our toolbox to protect our elections process, Pate said in a statement on Wednesday.  ,
Another tool that the USCIS uses to assess immigration status is the program known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.  ,
The most recent lawsuit comes after Pate was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa on October 30 for requiring the 2, 176 self-identifiable noncitizens on the state’s list to provide evidence of citizenship or cast provisional ballots.  ,
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Representing four people on the list who had become naturalized citizens, the ACLU argued that the plan was unconstitutional.  ,
Two days before the election, a federal judge turned down the organization’s request to stop the ballot challenges.
