Iowa Secretary of State accuses Dept of Homeland Security of delaying non-citizen voter checks

Apparently Iowa is encountering the same resistance and delay that Florida and Colorado confirming the citizenship of voters with the Department of Homeland Security database. Despite the law explicitly allowing for such verification of citizenship, the federal agency continues to drag its feet.

The secretary of state’s office identified 3,582 non-citizens in Iowa
who were registered to vote. Some of those may have later become
naturalized citizens. So, in order to find out who is legal and who
isn’t, Secretary Schultz attempted to gain access to the Systematic
Alien Verification and Entitlements (SAVE) database. Those efforts have
been denied, apparently in violation of federal law.

“Although federal law explicitly grants states the right to access
the citizenship information contained in the SAVE database, Iowa has yet
to gain this access despite the fact that other states have
successfully done so,” Schultz said last week while testifying before
the Senate Judiciary Committee. “There have been multiple delays in
communications attributable to that agency.”