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

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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. . […]