"It's just a handful of people in a state that no one cares about."
Posted on 10/24/2024 2:32:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iowa’s elections chief revealed on Tuesday that his office has identified 87 individuals who self-reported they are noncitizens after already casting ballots in elections.
“It is absolutely critical that eligible citizens are able to vote and we are not disenfranchising any eligible voters,” Secretary of State Paul Pate said in a statement.
According to an office press release, the 87 foreign nationals were discovered as part of a regular audit of the state’s voter rolls. The analysis also uncovered 67 self-reported noncitizens who registered to vote, but did not cast ballots in elections. The names of these individuals are being turned over “to the Iowa Attorney General and the Iowa Department of Public Safety for potential prosecution,” according to Pate.
The audit additionally found 2,022 people “who have self-reported they are not citizens and voted or registered to vote after self-reporting.” Pate Communications Director Ashley Hunt Esquivel reportedly said, as described by the left-wing Iowa Capital Dispatch, “there may be individuals in this category who have been naturalized as U.S. citizens since reporting their status to the Iowa [Department of Transportation], and legally eligible to vote.”
Pate indicated in the release that his office has provided instructions to county auditors to ensure only authorized U.S. citizens have their votes tabulated in the 2024 election. County auditors are to direct their poll workers to “challenge the ballots” cast by these individuals should they vote in the November contest. According to the secretary, these voters, whose eligibility remains in question, will only be able to cast provisional ballots.
“It is a felony for noncitizens to either vote or register to vote, and we will work with the authorities to ensure that those who break the law are prosecuted to the fullest extent,” Pate said.
Tuesday’s revelations come weeks after Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird brought charges against a noncitizen for voting in a local election earlier this year. As The Federalist’s Breccan Thies reported, Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez was charged “with two counts of election misconduct … — ‘registering to vote and illegally voting on the same day, July 16, 2024, in a special election for the Marshalltown City Council,’ as outlined in [an office] press release.”
“We will be working with both [the state’s] Attorney General and Iowa’s Congressional Delegation to ensure the federal government gives us the tools to know with certainty before a noncitizen is able to register and vote in Iowa elections,” Pate said, after noting how his office had “run into roadblocks from the federal government.”
Such “roadblocks,” he indicated, have been encountered by “states across the country that are involved in lawsuits with the Department of Justice and federal government agencies.”
Earlier this month, the DOJ sued Virginia to stop the commonwealth from removing noncitizens and other ineligible registrants from the state’s voter rolls, as The Federalist reported. The lawfare came in response to actions by GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Elections to ensure only authorized U.S. citizens are on the voter registration lists during the 2024 election cycle.
Youngkin blasted the administration’s lawsuit as “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth,” and that the state will “defend these commonsense steps, that we are legally required to take, with every resource available to us.”
A hearing for the case is expected to take place on Thursday.
For more election news and updates, visit electionbriefing.com.
"It's just a handful of people in a state that no one cares about."
It is unclear from the article if those votes were counted or not. As in were they discovered before it was too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
It they have been counted then the entire election needs to be redone. As the democrats always say. Every vote counts.
Anyone who illegally votes should be executed.
Agree. It’s the foundation of our republic and should be treated as high treason.
Just imagine how many illegal alien voters are smart enough to NOT admit that they are illegal aliens!
Arrest and deport any non citizen casting a vote. It is illegal.
There ought to be vans clearly marked “Immigration Services” parked at every polling place. With uniformed people outside and signs saying, “You will be deported TODAY if you vote illegally”.
Scare people away.
Let me guess who “they” voted for?
from what Robin Opsahl of the Iowa Capital Dispatch wrote it seems the non-citizens did vote and it was found out in the auditing process. The Secretary of State’s office said “another 2,022 people self reported that they did not hold U. S. citizenship when on to vote or register to vote”.
I wish it were that simple. In many cases these (mostly legal) aliens simply legally obtained a drivers license. Unknow to them at the time is that they were automatically registered to vote in the process (motor voter).
The aliens never knew they were registered and never requested a ballot. But somebody did and voted in their stead.
This subjects the alien to criminal prosecution and or removal. Dems don't care, just like their slaves prior to the Civil War they are only here to serve their dem masters.
President Obama Explains How You Become a U.S. Citizen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFkm_hSsQo
If government and law enforcement don’t do something about election fraud, they’ll be inviting the people to do it.
Boy, it sure would be interesting to see who those votes were cast for… Although if they were dumb enough to self report a felony there’s no telling.
Boy, it sure would be interesting to see who those votes were cast for… Although if they were dumb enough to self report a felony there’s no telling.
2,022 people “who have self-reported they are not citizens and voted or registered to vote after self-reporting.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said Tuesday he referred alleged noncitizens who voted in past elections for criminal prosecution, and he told county auditors to require about 2,000 people who may be citizens to vote a provisional ballot in this election.
non word salad from NPR?
SHE WILL NEVER LIVE THOSE COMMENTS DOWN
THE MOTOR VOTER LAWS NEED TO BE STOPPED.
Not “just” executed but also severely tortured prior to execution. As much pain as possible and then throw the body to the hogs. This should also happen to EVERY employee of MSNBC and New York Times. /spit
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