Articles Tagged: Paul Pate

More than 2,000 fairgoers participated in the nonscientific straw poll conducted by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office

The task force would make recommendations about adding nuclear energy to Iowa’s energy portfolio.

The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.

The Republican, who has held the office since 2015, says more work remains to protect Iowa elections and encourage voter participation

Iowa poll workers will be allowed to challenge a voter at the polls on the basis of their citizenship status under new legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The new laws also make changes to election recount procedures in the state, ban ranked choice voting and make it harder for third-party groups such as Libertarians to qualify as a major political party in the state.

Also in the Capitol Notebook, the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council awarded more than $200,000 in grants to 12 Iowa schools to help fund work-based and career-connected learning opportunities for students this summer.

This week on the podcast, we have a slate of candidate announcements to talk through for state and federal offices.

Only election results decided by a margin of 1 percent or less in Iowa would be recounted under legislation headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate expressed concern Friday about the Trump administration’s pause on federal election cybersecurity programs during an appearance on “Iowa Press.”

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate released the information amid a monthslong effort to identify Iowans without citizenship who registered or attempted to vote

State lawmakers once again are working to make Iowa’s election recount laws more consistent, while also considering other changes to elections laws.

Iowa election recount reform legislation is advancing in the Iowa House; it differs greatly from recount reform introduced earlier by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.

Also, state lawmakers are considering taxes on vape products

The legislation would allow Pate’s office to work with state, federal and private agencies to seek information that will help his office determine registered voters’ citizenship

Also, state legislators honored their fellow member who died late last week