A resident from LeClaire, Iowa, is accusing Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) of keeping a primary residence not in her district in an investigation request to the federal Office of Congressional Ethics.

LeClaire resident Joyce Keuhl alleges in her request that documents show Miller-Meeks lives primarily in her home in Ottumwa, Iowa, which sits in Wapello County and was redrawn into the 3rd Congressional District after the 2020 census. The congresswoman represents the Hawkeye State’s 1st District.

At the time of the census, Miller-Meeks said she would not sell her Ottumwa home but would take up residence in the 1st District. Just before the 2022 election, she changed her voting address to that of a state senator’s home in LeClaire, Scott County, which is in the 1st District.

Just before Iowa’s June 4 primary, Miller-Meeks changed her voting address to an apartment in Davenport, Iowa, which is also in Scott County. However, Keuhl said in her request obtained by the Quad City Times that the most recent property tax statement lists that Miller-Meeks and her husband received a homestead credit for the Ottumwa property over the last two tax periods.

In congressional disclosure reports, Miller-Meeks wrote she has a mortgage on her “personal residence in Ottumwa” in 2022 and 2023, with campaign contributions listing her Ottumwa address as her mailing address, per Keuhl’s request.

“Though Miller-Meeks has been registered to vote at various addresses in Scott County for nearly two years now, the facts presented above strongly suggest that her residence — the home where she lives and the primary home where she sleeps at night — is in Wapello County,” the request states. “Thus, it appears she is violating Iowa voting law by remaining registered to vote and voting in a county and precinct where she does not reside.” 

Federal law does not require members of Congress to live in the district they represent, but they must live in the state. Iowa election law, however, defines a voter’s residence as “the place which the person declares is the person’s home with the intent to remain there permanently or for a definite, or indefinite, or indeterminable length of time.”

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Keuhl said in her request that if Miller-Meeks provided an incorrect address for her voter’s residence, she violates House rules that require members to “conduct (themselves) at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditability on the House” and gives the ethics committee authority to handle members’ violations of the law.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Miller-Meeks for comment.