DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate US citizens, whistleblower alleges
The whistleblower says hundreds of DHS agents used faulty data and 12-minute reviews, risking false flags of eligible voters and naturalized citizens.
- A federal whistleblower report released Monday alleges Department of Homeland Security agents violated state laws by misrepresenting themselves on voter websites to access private registration records.
- The Trump administration's "Unlawful Voter Initiative" deploys federal agents across 50 states to search voter databases for evidence of noncitizen voting, an effort Democrats say validates long-standing fraud conspiracy theories.
- Agents received only 1-hour, 45-minute training and face quotas of 40 reviews daily, creating pressure to flag records using unreliable data that risks incorrectly identifying naturalized U.S. citizens as unlawful voters.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Alex Padilla demanded the agency immediately halt the operation Monday, warning the program could disenfranchise eligible voters and subject election officials to threats.
- While DHS officials maintain the effort is essential to ensure election integrity, critics argue the initiative interferes with November elections by using questionable tactics that could wrongly target eligible citizens.
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Senate Democrats disclose Trump administration dug through state voter rolls
Department of Homeland Security officers may have broken state laws carrying out the Trump administration’s orders to find noncitizens voting illegally in federal elections, Democratic senators alleged Monday following a whistleblower complaint.
DHS is using legally questionable tactics to investigate voter fraud, whistleblower says
By Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is using legally questionable tactics and relying on unreliable data to investigate non-citizen voting, a whistleblower alleged in a report released by top Senate Democrats Monday. The disclosures prompted accusations by Democrats and voter advocates of a sweeping dragnet that could ensnare
Whistleblower Alleges DHS Illegally Accessed Voter Records
A whistleblower alleges that agents under the Trump administration’s Unlawful Voter Initiative were directed to unlawfully access state voter records and to misrepresent themselves as voters, potentially violating state laws while seeking to validate broad claims of noncitizen voting. California Sen. Alex Padilla and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer are pressing DHS to halt the program and investigate, as questions about legality and priva…
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The Independent (US)Homeland Security may have broken the law to find non-citizen voters: whistleblower
‘This is just the latest example of how far Donald Trump will go to interfere in our elections,’ Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says
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