IOWA

In an echo of Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott and his incredibly partisan Sec. of State Ken Detzner's disastrous recent attempt to purge "potential non-citizens" from Sunshine State voting rolls, Iowa's incredibly partisan Sec. of State Matt Schultz issued "emergency rules" at the end of July to help kick off his own "non-citizen" voter purge in the Hawkeye State.

That effort was met by a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on Wednesday, charging that Schultz' rules were issued improperly in an abuse of his office.

According to AP, the new rules call for suspected non-citizens to be identified through an unknown process created by Schultz without oversight or explanation which, his office says, would be "contrary to the public interest."

If, through this magical, unoverseeable process, created with no public input, voters are believed to be ineligible to vote as non-citizens, "Schultz's office will send notice telling them they may be illegally registered, a class D felony, and should cancel their registrations immediately. They would be given 14 days to dispute the notice; if they fail to do so, Schultz's office would take steps to remove them from the list."