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Trump continues voter data push despite repeated setbacks
DHS has obtained voter rolls from at least 47 states as the administration seeks to build citizenship lists despite privacy and election-law challenges.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump continued pressing the Department of Homeland Security to compile voter data identifying noncitizens, with DHS having obtained voter rolls from at least 47 states under his executive order despite repeated court setbacks.
- Trump signed an executive order in March directing DHS to create citizen lists using federal data and share them with states; his proposed SAVE America Act failed in the Republican-controlled Senate.
- A Reuters review found software glitches added more than 30,000 noncitizens to voter rolls since 2000, while New Jersey reported 6,600 were added via errors in 2023 and 2024. Just 129 people have been prosecuted for noncitizen voting since 1996.
- Justice Department lawyers argued before District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland on Friday against blocking DHS from creating voter lists, while privacy advocates contend the plan violates laws by collecting Social Security Administration data.
- Critics allege the effort aims to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters, though the administration claims it seeks election integrity. It remains unclear whether the citizenship lists will impact eligibility for the November 3 midterm elections.
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Trump continues voter data push despite setbacks
President Donald Trump is pressing forward with an unprecedented push for his administration to obtain sensitive voter data ahead of the US midterm elections, despite repeated losses in court, in a hunt for noncitizens illegally registered to vote, though there…
·Tucson, United States
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Trump continues voter data push despite repeated setbacks
President Donald Trump is pressing forward with an unprecedented push for his administration to obtain sensitive voter data ahead of the US midterm elections, despite repeated losses in court, in a hunt for noncitizens illegally registered to vote, though there has been no evidence of widespread fraud of this kind.
·London, United Kingdom
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