Source: SFGate
“Several dozen people who identified themselves as noncitizens voted in a past election or registered to vote despite being ineligible to do so, Iowa’s top election official said with just two weeks to go until 2024 ballots will be tallied. Elections officials compared the state’s 2.3 million registered voters to a list of people who self-reported as noncitizens to the Iowa Department of Transportation, according to Ashley Hunt Esquivel, spokesperson for Secretary of State Paul Pate. Pate released a statement Tuesday detailing that his office found 87 people who identified themselves to the DOT as noncitizens but previously voted. An additional 67 people said they are not citizens but previously registered to vote. ‘For those groups, we have pretty clear evidence … that they voted or registered to vote when they are not citizens, which is, of course, a Class D felony,’ Hunt Esquivel said.” (10/23/24)