CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is in line to become president of the National Association of Secretaries of State next year after he was unanimously named president-elect at the group’s summer conference in Philadelphia.
Pate said he was honored by the appointment because he shares the group’s goal “to conduct clean and fair elections, and to offer service at the speed of business, not the speed of government.”
Additionally, Pate’s office received the Election Center’s 2018 Professional Practice State Award for its training materials for poll workers. The award was presented during the National Association of State Election Directors’ summer conference in Philadelphia.