Pate, the state’s top elections official, had requested federal citizenship information for more than 2,000 Iowans in his effort to prevent non-citizens from voting in the Nov. 5 elections

Iowa's secretary of state and attorney general filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of withholding citizenship information.

Iowa officials are suing for access to information on the citizenship status of over 2,000 registered voters they had questioned before the 2024 election.

Iowa's secretary of state wants information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the citizenship status of over 2,000 registered voters.

Iowa election officials sued the Biden administration after the federal government declined to hand over a list of noncitizens registered to vote in the state before the 2024 elections. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials refused to hand over a list of noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Iowa “despite having confirmed that hundreds

In a suit filed Tuesday, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate argues that U.S. immigration officials violated a law granting states access to the citizenship status of people in their jurisdiction.