Smiling People For Voter ID On Iowa GOP Candidate's Website Clearly German Teenagers

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Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter

Posted on October 13, 2014, at 1:36 p.m. ET

Paul Pate is a Republican running for Iowa secretary of state, a position he previously held and is running for again. One of his biggest issues is voter identification. Here's his website home page:

Via pateforiowa.com

The card show, however, is clearly not an Iowa driver's license. This is what one looks like:

Via iowadot.gov

Here's a closer look at the people in the image:

Via pateforiowa.com

A reverse image search shows the picture comes from a Germany-based photographer.

Via shutterstock.com

And the license is clearly German.

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Paul Pate is a Republican running for Iowa secretary of state, a position he previously held and is running for again. One of his biggest issues is voter identification. Here's his website home page:

The card show, however, is clearly not an Iowa driver's license. This is what one looks like:

Here's a closer look at the people in the image:

A reverse image search shows the picture comes from a Germany-based photographer.

And the license is clearly German.

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