The Left Says It Doesn’t Happen, But Noncitizens Voted In Iowa’s Election; After Flagging 2,000+ Ballots, Iowa Secretary of State Says 35 Noncitizens Voted in 2024

The Left Says It Doesn’t Happen, But Noncitizens Voted In Iowa’s Election:

The media continually say that noncitizens won’t vote in U.S. elections because the penalty is so severe — fines, prison, and potential deportation are enough of a deterrent. But hundreds of noncitizens have not been deterred from registering in Iowa, where Secretary of State Paul Pate this week said audits of Iowa’s voter registration rolls found 277 noncitizens registered to vote or actually voted.

Using data from the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, the audit found 35 noncitizens cast ballots that were counted in the 2024 general election and five noncitizens tried to vote but their ballots were rejected, a statement from Pate’s office said. It also offered the following fine detail of what the audit found:

18 noncitizens cast normal ballots at the polls on Election Day; these votes were counted. 

15 noncitizens returned absentee ballots; these votes were counted. 

2 noncitizens cast provisional ballots at the polls on Election Day; these votes were counted. 

2 noncitizens returned absentee ballots that were rejected by the Absentee and Special Voters Precinct (ASVP) boards. 

3 noncitizens voted provisional ballots on Election Day that were rejected by the ASVP boards. 

22 noncitizens registered to vote in 2024 but did not vote.

Other noncitizens who are registered to vote registered in previous years.

The investigation, which ran into a federal roadblock, got started before the 2024 general election when the Iowa Department of State compared self-reported noncitizens who applied for driver’s licenses with Iowa’s voter registration rolls and made a list of potential noncitizens registered to vote, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of State told The Federalist.

The Department of State gave its potentials list to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field office in Des Moines, and they were able to trim the list of potential noncitizens down to 2,176. Later, they verbally told the Department of State that around 12 percent of the list was noncitizens, the spokeswoman said. —>READ MORE HERE

After flagging 2,000+ ballots, Iowa secretary of state says 35 noncitizens voted in 2024:

Thirty-five noncitizens voted in Iowa in the 2024 election and another five noncitizens tried to vote but had their ballots rejected, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announced Thursday.

Pate, a Republican, said an audit of the state’s voter registration list confirmed 277 noncitizens on Iowa’s voter rolls. While 22 of those confirmed noncitizens registered to vote in 2024, the vast majority of the 277 identified did not vote, try to vote or register to vote in 2024.

Last year, two weeks before Election Day, Pate’s office instructed county auditors to challenge the ballots of 2,176 people who had at some point in the past told the Iowa Department of Transportation that they were noncitizens. Many had become U.S. citizens since getting their driver’s licenses.

The 277 people Pate confirmed as noncitizens on Thursday amounts to 13% of the voters he instructed election workers to challenge last fall. In all, 1.67 million Iowans voted in the Nov. 5 election, for a voter turnout rate of 74.2%.

Opponents said Pate’s directive just days before the election had a chilling effect on legal voters, making them fearful to cast their ballot, and forced naturalized citizens to jump through extra hoops to prove their citizenship when they voted.

The League of United Latin American Citizens sued Pate to block the directive, but a federal judge allowed election workers to continue challenging the voters on Pate’s list.

Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, which represented LULAC in its lawsuit, said Thursday that the ACLU is interested to learn more in light of Pate’s new numbers.

“These numbers show how flawed the secretary’s illegally timed scheme — just weeks before the election — was,” she said in a statement. “We know many U.S. citizens in Iowa were wrongly targeted. Our concern is how many eligible voters couldn’t vote, which should also concern the secretary.” —>READ MORE HERE

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