The state of Iowa is suing President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking efforts to verify the status of 2,000 suspected non-citizens who are registered to vote.
The Biden admin is refusing to provide access to the citizenship status information of more than 2,000 registered voters. The status of the voters was questioned ahead of the 2024 election.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Secretary of State Paul Pate filed the lawsuit on Tuesday.
According to the filing, Biden’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “would not hand over” its “list of non-citizens illegally registered to vote in Iowa.”
The complaint details how state election officials checked voter rolls against a list of people who identified themselves as non-citizens with the state’s Department of Transportation.
The vast majority of the 2,176 names had subsequently registered to vote or voted.