Paul D. Pate

I found no publicly reported criminal scandals involving Paul D. Pate (e.g., no indictments, charges, convictions, or ethics sanctions) in the provided results. The controversies reported were political/administrative: in 2024, Pate directed Iowa county auditors to automatically challenge ballots of 2,176 people whose citizenship was “unclear,” based on flawed Iowa DOT data; Iowa ACLU/LULAC sued and a federal judge rejected the challenge, letting ballot challenges continue. Separately, AP reported that in 2017 financial disclosure filings (covering 2017), Pate failed to list certain private businesses and ethics regulators said his disclosure was comparable to others and did not require correction at that time.