Biden judge rules Iowa can check ballots of potential noncitizens in blow to ACLU

Iowa officials, including Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, have recently been attempting to investigate over 2,000 names on voter rolls that may belong to noncitizens.

During a press conference on Oct. 30, Pate said that officials "have questions" about noncitizens voting illegally, and that they "need answers."

"That is why none of them have been taken off the voter rolls," Pate said, according to the Des Moines Register. "But we do owe an obligation to make sure that they are citizens now."

"That's why we've asked the county auditors, through the poll workers, to challenge those votes, to allow them to confirm their citizenship status, so that we can count their vote as well."

In the case, the ACLU had argued that the state's efforts threaten the voting rights of recently-naturalized citizens. Judge Locher found that Iowa officials would not remove anyone from voting rolls, but instead require them to use provisional ballots.

The Trump campaign disputed the results immediately, favoring Emerson College's polls instead.

"Emerson College, released today, far more closely reflects the state of the actual Iowa electorate and does so with far more transparency in their methodology," the campaign memo read.

The ACLU did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.