A 42-year-old Marshalltown man has been charged with voter fraud for registering to vote and casting a ballot in a special election in July. According to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, 42-year-old Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez is a legal resident of the U-S, but not a citizen and he’s been charged with two counts of election misconduct. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate — the state’s top election official — says the law says very clearly you have to be a U-S citizen to vote.

Pate says the role of election workers is to make sure only eligible voters vote.

Pate made his comments during taping of the Iowa P-B-S program “Iowa Press” — a few hours before the charges against the Marshalltown man were announced.

O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa