ICE reviewed tens of millions of voter records looking for noncitizen voters, records show
Internal documents show DHS analyzed 99 million voter records and weighed undercover tactics as part of a national election-fraud inquiry.
- On Wednesday, advocacy group Democracy Forward released records detailing a Department of Homeland Security initiative that analyzed 99 million records to identify noncitizens suspected of illegal voting.
- A June 1 HSI report shows investigators ingested 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset and 48.4 million records obtained by Heather Honey, a senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
- HSI explored deploying undercover agents against more than 150 organizations suspected of facilitating illegal voter registration, according to internal documents reviewed by Newsweek and Democracy Forward.
- Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman said, "It appears the president and his allies want to pick their voters," while several inquiries closed without finding evidence of wrongdoing.
- Separately, HSI undercover agents infiltrated the "Rapid Response Network" in Minneapolis, providing intelligence that authorities claimed confirmed coordinated targeting of federal law enforcement officials during anti-ICE demonstrations.
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Internal docs expose ICE's 'national initiative' involving tens of millions of voters
A trove of internal Homeland Security Department (DHS) records has exposed a “national initiative” from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involving the voter records of tens of millions of Americans, CNN reported Wednesday.“It appears the president and his allies want to pick their voters, as opposed to the way things are supposed to function in a democracy where voters pick their leaders,” said Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward, t…
Trump Ramps Up Investigations Into Voter Registration
“As the Trump administration promotes doubts about the integrity of the voting system ahead of the midterm elections, homeland security officials have investigated more than 150 organizations as part of its effort to scrutinize nonprofits that they say may be helping noncitizens illegally register to vote,” the New York Times reports. “The documents also reveal […]
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"If not for the laws that protect the public’s right to know what their government is doing, the public likely would have never known about these concerning schemes."
ICE reviewed tens of millions of voter records looking for noncitizen voters, records show
DHS’s sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn on tens of millions of records, scrutinized dozens of nonprofit voter-registration groups and considered deploying undercover agents.
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