State Senator Tom Courtney (D) of Burlington said Thursday that one of the key elements of the six-month review by State Auditor Mary Mosiman’s office is the recommendation that Secretary of State Schultz develop a plan to repay Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds.
Referring to the use of HAVA funds, the State Auditor’s office wrote in a letter dated December 18, 2013:
“In conducting our audits, we became aware of an aspect of the (Secretary of State) Office’s operations for which we believe corrective action is necessary.”
The review by the State Auditor also concluded that the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) does not specifically allow the Secretary of State to hire a law enforcement officer to conduct criminal investigations of Iowans. In addition, the state of Iowa’s plan for using HAVA funds does not include spending $240,000 for criminal investigations.
“The State Auditor’s six-month review provides more evidence that Iowa taxpayers are right to be troubled by Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s use of their money,” said Courtney. “Based on these new findings, I call on the Secretary of State to shut down his witch hunt and instead focus on his official duties: educating eligible Iowans on voting procedures and voting rights.”
Courtney said the legality of Schultz’s use of federal funds is separate from other concerns raised about activities in the Secretary of State’s office. This includes an on-going lawsuit regarding allegations that his investigations intimidate eligible voters, especially those who have recently become U.S. citizens, from registering to vote or going to the polls.
It is also separate from recent media reports indicating that Schultz’s multi-year investigation has resulted in only five guilty pleas for election-related offenses, none of which would have been prevented by an Iowa voter ID law.
Half of the votes cast in flordia came from cemetary plots and pets. As old mayor Daly of chitcago once said – VOTE and vote OFTEN !
So less than 10 fraudulent voters in the entire state need fixing?
Are you sure there was less than 10? How many times do they have to break the law before it becomes illegal? If it is illegal to vote twice and I only vote twice 3 times then it is ok?
@maybe-Aw, come on now. You are asking the dope head to do math and you know it will just embarrass the hell out of him.
The cheaters were all GOP.
I don’t know about iowa but I do know that in pennsylvania there was places that is evenly split between republicans and democrats yet during the voting romney didn’t recieve a single vote, people were complaining because they would vote for romney electronically only to actually see their vote change to obama as they hit the button. Now you can blame all the voter fraud on the republicans but that would show how completely ignorant or brainwashed you are.
Once again maybe, you are right but completely wrong in your accusation. Why do you continually bring this up? No one believes you and anyone who can read this and comprehend what they read, see that you are just trying to be a problem.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/2012fraud.asp
@maybe-I honestly didn’t hear about voter fraud in Iowa. I did read reports that it was very bad wherever Acorn and those types of organizations were. Now I hear on the news that the administration has hired the Acorn workers to work on the Obamacare websites. That is probably why the damn thing doesn’t work.
snopes is as far left that you can get and if you read snopes then you are believing what they want you to believe, good luck trying to see whats right with your head up your ass.
If some fine tuning is in order to fix the use of funds issue he alludes to then the legislature should take care of it.
I am very wary of Democratic claims of “voter intimidation” when we all know it’s ridiculous. Voters that have legitimately registered and have an ID to prove their identity at the polls have nothing to be “intimidated” by. Other “voters” who show up and try to vote without registering or appropriate ID deserve to be “intimidated”.