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March 21, 2025 |  By: Associated Press

Iowa's voter polls found 35 ineligible voters

A review of Iowa’s voter rolls found thirty-five people who are not U.S. citizens were among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in the 2024 general election, despite them being ineligible to vote.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said last week that his office also identified 277 noncitizens who were registered to vote, a small percentage of the nearly 2.3 million registered voters.

Voting by people who are not U.S. citizens is illegal in federal elections, and there is not evidence that it is occurring in large numbers. State reviews, like Iowa’s, show it is rare for noncitizens to register to vote and even rarer that they actually cast a ballot.

Pate has regularly reminded Iowans that the state’s laws protect the integrity of the elections but that even one instance of a noncitizen voting illegally is too many. The office will refer the new information to the state Department of Public Safety and the Attorney General for further investigation and potential prosecution.