What's the matter with Iowa? Comical Secretary of State Paul Pate swims with the Nativists

 

Not to mention promoting the long-running GOP program of voter suppression.

Headline:  Des Moines Register, 10/31/2024

A group of naturalized citizens and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa are suing Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate over his instruction to challenge the ballots of more than 2,000 voters who he said may be noncitizens. 

Pate, a Republican, contacted Iowa's 99 county auditors on Oct. 22 — two weeks before Election Day — telling them that his office had found more than 2,000 people on the state's voter rolls who previously reported to the Iowa Department of Transportation that they were not citizens. 

Pate instructed county auditors to challenge the ballots of those Iowans and instead require them to cast a provisional ballot.  [emphasis added]

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