DES MOINES - Last week in the Iowa Legislature, Democrat State Senator and candidate for U.S. Congress Sarah Trone Garriott, voted against a bill requiring citizenship verification to vote in Iowa elections.

This comes as President Trump recently asked members of Congress at the State of the Union to stand if they agree that Americans citizens should be prioritized over illegal immigrants, and every single Democrat refused to stand. 

Poll after poll shows Americans support voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements. It is common sense, yet Sarah Trone Garriott disagrees. By refusing to support citizenship verification, she is siding with illegal immigrants over Iowans and leaving our elections more vulnerable to foreign interference and less secure.

The numbers are clear:

• Echelon Insights: 76% of voters say requiring photo ID would make the midterm elections more fair. 67% of voters say requiring proof of citizenship would do the same.

• Yahoo/YouGov: 62% of Americans support requiring proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.

• Gallup: 84% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote, and 83% support requiring proof citizenship when registering for the first time. 

The American people agree. Secure elections matter.

“Leave it to radical woke warrior Sarah Trone Garriott to come down on the wrong side of an issue that a majority of Americans support. Verifying U.S. citizenship before voting is a basic safeguard for election integrity. Trone Garriott is no moderate. She is the poster child for her party’s far-left base. If elected, she will represent Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District as such. Iowans must reject this radical in November.” - Iowa GOP Spokesperson Jade Cichy

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