A federal judge has ruled that Iowa poll workers may continue challenging the ballots of more than 2,000 Iowans who are on a flawed list of possible noncitizens, denying a request to order counties to allow those named to vote normally.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, instructed county auditors on Oct. 22 to challenge the ballots of 2,176 registered voters who at some point in the past had told the Iowa Department of Transportation they were not U.S. citizens.
Any voter that is challenged must submit a provisional ballot, which won’t be counted unless they can provide proof of their citizenship by Nov. 12…