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From Fox News: A federal judge has allowed Iowa officials to continue disputing ballots cast by potential noncitizens, less than two days before Election Day.
Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Biden, ruled in favor of the Hawkeye State on Sunday. The state was being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of four recently-documented U.S. citizens and the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa.
Iowa officials, including Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, have recently been attempting to investigate over 2,000 names on voter rolls that may belong to noncitizens.
During a press conference on Oct. 30, Pate said that officials “have questions” about noncitizens voting illegally, and that they “need answers.”
“That is why none of them have been taken off the voter rolls,” Pate said, according to the Des Moines Register. “But we do owe an obligation to make sure that they are citizens now. That’s why we’ve asked the county auditors, through the poll workers, to challenge those votes, to allow them to confirm their citizenship status, so that we can count their vote as well.”
On Saturday, Sen. Chuck Grassley had written on X, “Disappointed USCIS disregarded Sen Ernst & my request for citizenship data by end of day yesterday 2b given to Scty of State Pate so he can ensure everyone who is eligible to vote can vote The work product is ready in Des Moines USCIS office but DC is stonewalling handover WHY???”
Disappointed USCIS disregarded Sen Ernst & my request for citizenship data by end of day yesterday 2b given to Scty of State Pate so he can ensure everyone who is eligible to vote can vote The work product is ready in Des Moines USCIS office but DC is stonewalling handover WHY???
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) November 2, 2024
The ACL had claimed that U.S. citizens were being kept from voting.
BREAKING: We’re suing Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on behalf of U.S. citizens who are being wrongly kept from voting with a regular ballot.
— ACLU of Iowa (@ACLUiowa) October 31, 2024
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