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Secretary of State: 35 noncitizens voted in 2024; investigations and federal data sharing remain unresolved
Summary
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said 35 noncitizens cast ballots in the 2024 general election after cross-checks of a federal list; Iowa has referred cases to the attorney general and the Department of Criminal Investigations while pressing for better-formatted federal data.
Paul Pate, Iowa secretary of state, said that 35 noncitizens had ballots counted in Iowa’s 2024 general election and that state officials have referred suspected illegal registrations and votes to the Iowa attorney general and the Department of Criminal Investigations.
Pate told Iowa Press that his office initially worked from a Department of Transportation list of about 2,100 names that could be outdated. “That’s the information we cross checked against our voter registration database,” he said. He said the office later obtained a federal list and narrowed the potential matches to about 270 names and then to 35 whose votes were counted; five others attempting to vote were turned away, he said, for a…
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