ICE reviewed tens of millions of voter records looking for noncitizen voters, records show
- 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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ICE reviewed tens of millions of voter registers in search of non-citizen voters, according to internal documents By Gabe Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Department of National Security's anti-electoral fraud operation has resorted to tens of millions of records, thoroughly examined dozens of non-profit voter registration groups, and considered the deployment of undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping non-citizens regi…
US conducts ‘SIR’-like voter verification: How millions of records are being reviewed to identify noncitizen voters
For months, India’s Opposition has attempted to turn the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls into a political controversy. Opposition parties have repeatedly alleged that the exercise could exclude genuine voters and have sought to portray voter-roll verification as an attack on democracy. But an interesting development in the United States offers a rather different perspective. The United States government has launched an extens…
ICE Accused of Trying to Silence Voters After Obtaining 50.6 Million Voter Records From Justice Department
Democracy Forward says documents show ICE obtained tens of millions of voter records and considered investigating registration groups, though several alleged activities remain unconfirmed.
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