U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley spoke with KCII News about how the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service failed to comply with Federal and State requests for citizenship voter data before the election in Iowa, “We have the Secretary of State, gets a list from the Department of Transportation, and when you get your drivers license they ask if you are registered to vote, and you say you are not a citizen, they can’t register your  vote, but some of those names gets on the scrolls, and about two thousand got on. So that meant that the Secretary of State had to make sure that non-citizens didn’t vote. So he has to have it correlated with what the immigration people in Des Moines knew about these Iowa citizens that were on the voter rolls. But in Washington DC they wouldn’t let the people in Des Moines release this information to the Secretary of State. This lack of cooperation between the Federal and State government that would permit a non-citizen vote is a horrendous precedent, and we can’t let that stand.” Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst released a joint statement saying that there was a USCIS failure to release citizenship information on 2,176 potential non-citizen Iowa voters. USCIS confirmed receipt of the senators’ October 31 letter supporting Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s request for the data. The agency neither provided the information Grassley and Ernst asked for by November 1, nor specified when or if it would do so.