SECRETARY OF STATE PATE VISITS SHELBY COUNTY

COUNTY -- Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate made a post municipal election visit to the Shelby County Election Commissioners office on Thursday, Nov. 16. 
    Pate was interested in getting the word out about the voter ID requirements and their importance in the soft rollout beginning January 1, 2018, as well as welcoming Maxwell and his new Shelby County election staff and seeing the election facilities that Shelby County uses to conduct elections.   
    Pate informed Maxwell that about 95 percent of the registered voters in Iowa will be mostly unaffected by the Voter Integrity  Bill passed this last session .  
    The remaining five percent are mostly in the 18 to 25 year old range, and suspected to be out of state college students without an Iowa driver’s license.  The balance of the demographics, in the five percent mirror the state population.
    Those without an Iowa driver’s license or an Iowa issued ID will get a Voter ID card.  In calendar year 2018 the ID will be asked for but not required from registered voters to vote.