DES MOINES, Iowa — Six Iowans officially have charges brought against them by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird after allegedly voting in an election as a noncitizen.

Those six names are: Jorge Sanchez-Vasquez of Marshall County, Ahumada Geronimo of Palo Alto County, Roque Ramirez Vasquez of Hancock County, Jose Lozano Munoz of Sioux County and Emmanuel Gathua and Itzel Lopez, both from Johnson County.

According to Iowa Code, election misconduct in the first-degree is a class D felony, which means an individual could face up to five years in jail and a fine ranging from $1,000 up to $10,245. To be charged with the first-degree offense, all the individual would have had to do was register to vote, but if a ballot was cast, it would still be the same charge.

A list that started with more than 2,000 people who potentially voted as a noncitizen was released by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate before the election in 2024. This list of potential noncitizen voters dated back to the early 2000s, as Pate’s office ran voter registration records against records with the Iowa Department of Transportation records. Pate had been asking for the SAVE list, a federal noncitizen database, from the Biden Administration but was not granted access.

Then, in March 2025, the Trump administration gave Pate’s office access to the SAVE list, allowing the list to be narrowed down to 277 names. From there, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations examined those cases, and passed six names off to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office to have charges brought against them.

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