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Iowa, Naturalized Citizens Settle Lawsuit over Voter Eligibility Ahead of 2024 Election
Settlement bars Iowa from using driver’s license data alone for citizenship verification before elections and prohibits using the disputed list for future voter challenges.
- A federal settlement filed Wednesday prevents Iowa from relying solely on driver’s license records from the Iowa Department of Transportation for citizenship data in the three months before an election.
- The naturalized U.S. citizens sued in late October 2024 after Pate's office compared voter rolls to a DOT list of self-reported noncitizens, challenging about 2,000 voters.
- A review last year found noncitizens among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in 2024, and all five individuals cited in the lawsuit were eligible to vote but had been included on the DOT list.
- Rita Bettis Austen, ACLU of Iowa legal director, called the settlement a win and said the voters wrongly listed were naturalized U.S. citizens with the right to vote, as the plaintiffs agreed to dismiss their claims.
- Under a DHS agreement, Iowa can now run SAVE searches using names, birthdays and Social Security numbers to verify thousands of voters, despite claims the 2024 list was rescinded and the lawsuit was moot.
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Iowa, naturalized citizens settle lawsuit over voter eligibility challenges ahead of 2024 election
Iowa’s top election official and a group of voters the state had flagged as potential noncitizens just ahead of the 2024 presidential election settled a federal lawsuit that will prevent the state from relying exclusively on driver’s license records for citizenship data in the three months before an
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