After lying to voters for months, new reporting from the end of last week reveals that Mariannette Miller-Meeks has quietly “ changed her voter registration back to her Ottumwa home” *outside the district* after repeatedly insisting that she lived in IA-01.
Last year, Miller-Meeks faced an ethics complaint from a Le Claire voter for registering to vote in Scott County at an apartment complex owned by wealthy campaign donor and political operative David Barker, who “donated $52,900 to Miller-Meeks’ campaign.” Miller-Meeks claimed to live at this address in the district despite public records, including “tax records and Miller-Meeks’ own campaign forms…indicat[ing] her primary address was in Wapello County.”
Miller-Meeks had repeatedly “defended questions about her legal residency” and insisted she lived in Scott County. Now? She’s moved her voter registration back to outside IA-01 because Miller-Meeks will do anything to avoid facing her voters.
DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks spent last year lying to Iowans’ faces about living in Iowa’s first district. Now, she’s made it clear what everyone already knew: she doesn’t live in IA-01 and she has so little respect for Iowans that she thinks they won’t see through her BS.”
Quad-City Times: Mariannette Miller-Meeks changes voting address back to Ottumwa home
- U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks changed her voter registration back to her Ottumwa home, according to voter records from Wapello County.
- After Miller-Meeks’ long-time home in Ottumwa was drawn into the 3rd Congressional District in the redistricting after the 2020 census, Miller-Meeks said she took up residency in Scott County.
- At first, she registered to vote at a then-state senator’s home in LeClaire. Then, Miller-Meeks rented an apartment in Davenport and registered there.
- Opponents criticized her for it and questioned whether she actually lived where she was voting, citing tax records and Miller-Meeks’ own campaign forms that indicate her primary address was in Wapello County.
- Iowa law, though, requires voters to register to vote at their primary address and vote in the county where they primarily reside.
- A LeClaire resident filed a request for an ethics investigation and a Davenport attorney challenged her 2024 ballot cast in Scott County.
- Miller-Meeks changed her voter registration to her Ottumwa home on July 11 of this year, according to Wapello County records.
- She did not vote in Wapello County in Iowa’s November 2025 city/school elections. The last time she voted was in Scott County in 2024, according to the Wapello County Auditor’s Office.
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