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\n A puzzling email landed in Nevada\u2019s state election office last month. A Fox News reporter wanted to know if the state had a response to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s purported discovery of more than 15,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls.\n <\/p>

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\n Election officials circulated the request. No one knew where the claim had come from.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe just responded very plainly, like we have no idea what you\u2019re talking about,\u201d Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Three days later, they got their answer. DHS announced that an analysis of public voter data had found more than 250,000 potential noncitizens registered in Nevada, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Officials in all four states said they were blindsided. They disputed the findings and said DHS had provided neither its methodology nor the names of the allegedly ineligible voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI can\u2019t take something that\u2019s made up out of thin air and try to justify it or defend it,\u201d Aguilar said. \u201cWe operate off of facts, not allegations or anecdotal information.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The announcement coincided with a primetime address by President Donald Trump, who said he was declassifying information exposing vulnerabilities in the nation\u2019s election system. His allies hailed the findings as a bombshell. Publicly and privately, some Republican officials balked at them.\n <\/p>\n

\n Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who has long echoed some of Trump\u2019s election fraud claims, underscored his role after the president\u2019s speech. At a press conference on the White House grounds, he touted his department\u2019s noncitizen findings, urged more states to collaborate, and delivered a stark warning.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf the election officials \u2013 once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections, and they chose not to \u2013 then those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison,\u201d Mullin said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Since taking over DHS in March after Trump fired Kristi Noem, Mullin has accelerated efforts to make the department a central force in Trump\u2019s crusade against purported widespread election fraud. DHS has pushed states to share their voter rolls for audit and vowed to withhold grant funding from those that refuse to adopt a broader set of election reforms.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last year, DHS tapped Heather Honey, a Trump-aligned election researcher who gained national attention for her efforts challenging the 2020 results, to lead an \u201celection integrity\u201d campaign.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Honey\u2019s influence has grown under Mullin, and in June, the department promoted her to senior counselor to the secretary.\n <\/p>\n

\n In Trump\u2019s second term, DHS has pivoted away from its longstanding role to help with election security and focused far more resources on voter fraud allegations, claiming troves of noncitizens are registered \u2013 and likely voting \u2013 especially in Democratic-led states.\n <\/p>\n

\n Federal law bars noncitizens from voting as well as making false statements to register. The administration has sharply intensified efforts to uncover such violations \u2013 pursuing criminal charges and deportations.\n <\/p>\n

\n The department has leaned for investigative work on one of its federal agencies \u2013\u202fHomeland Security Investigations \u2013\u202fan arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically tackles major crimes like human trafficking, drug smuggling and child exploitation, not voter fraud.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,\u201d a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. \u201cWe have repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in our elections.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Communications obtained by CNN show that HSI agents have spent months pressing local election officials across the country for voter records to build criminal cases. Their inquiries have primarily centered on a slew of individual voters, but the probes have expanded to canvassing groups and even questions on debunked theories about the 2020 election \u2013 often with a sense of urgency.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t normally ask this of you if I was conducting an investigation with my usual methodology and speed, but there\u2019s a bit of pressure on the timeline of things,\u201d one HSI agent told a county election official in Ohio while requesting records for several names.\n <\/p>\n

\n The agent later acknowledged: \u201cVoter fraud investigations aren\u2019t typically what HSI works.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Under the Trump administration, agents have, for example, been assigned to investigate whether naturalized US citizens registered or voted before becoming citizens, according to an internal memo reviewed by CNN. Another memo directs HSI agents to coordinate with US Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin removal proceedings when a noncitizen is suspected of or linked to voter fraud.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAll HSI offices are engaged in these important efforts,\u201d the DHS spokesperson said.\n <\/p>\n

\n For months, agentshave been working to trace the voting histories of tens of thousands of people flagged as potential noncitizens by a controversial federal verification system \u2014 the same pool of names Mullin cited at his news conference as definitive proof that large numbers of noncitizens are registered to vote.\n <\/p>\n

\n While Trump and his allies have made sweeping claims about widespread noncitizen voting, emails obtained by CNN reveal a messier reality. Agents repeatedly pursued leads only to discover that they had identified the wrong people or lacked enough information to know for sure \u2014 and in some cases, few had ever cast a ballot.\n <\/p>\n

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\n In Franklin County, Ohio, several people flagged by HSI had never been registered to vote. After confusion over another person\u2019s birthdate, the agent wrote: \u201cOops! Turns out the voter is actually his father.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The emails show the inquiry soon expanded to canvassing groups, including questions about the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a progressive voter-turnout organization that federal agents raided in June \u2013 four months after the exchange.\n <\/p>\n

\n In Fort Bend County, Texas, HSI subpoenaed the election director for records before supplying a list of names to check, according to records obtained by Democracy Forward and shared with CNN. When county officials asked for more details to ensure they had identified the correct voters, the investigator replied: \u201cAt this time, the information I sent is all we have. If you could just proceed with the information provided, that would be great. We may have to do additional checks on our end.\u201d\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cThis looks like DHS scraping the bottom of the barrel,\u201d said Brendan Fischer, Director of Strategic Investigations at Campaign Legal Center, a voting-rights advocacy group.\n <\/p>\n

\n Over the past 18 months, the administration has enhanced the citizenship records programs known as SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) with data from other federal agencies, a move that was praised by Republican election officials who nonetheless have acknowledged that the data-matching can produce false positives and requires further investigation. Separately, the Justice Department has been demanding that states turn over their voter rolls \u2014 bringing lawsuits against 30 states that have refused \u2014 so that the administration can do its own SAVE audits for ineligible voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe expansion of SAVE failed to substantiate claims of widespread noncitizen voting, so now the administration is trying to save face by directing HSI investigators to pursue a very limited number of potential cases,\u201d Fischer said.\n <\/p>\n

\n A guidance document circulated within HSI last year, which CNN reviewed, tells agents working election-related cases to determine which federal laws give them authority to investigate before collecting evidence. It also directs them to consult prosecutors before issuing subpoenas or conducting interviews.\n <\/p>\n

\n The document warns against public actions that could influence an election and bars immigration enforcement that \u201cchills\u201d voting. It also prohibits agents from bypassing election officials who control records or Justice Department divisions that oversee election matters.\n <\/p>\n

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\n DHS has also joined the administration\u2019s continuing effort to find evidence supporting Trump\u2019s unfounded claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him.\n <\/p>\n

\n In February, HSI contacted the Arizona attorney general\u2019s office with questions about previous reviews of the election. The outreach, first reported by VoteBeat, came days after Noem, then the Homeland Security secretary, held an unusual news conference in Arizona promoting a stalled Trump-backed election bill.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the queries to officials working under Arizona\u2019s Democratic attorney general, an HSI agent asked about claims involving late-arriving ballots in Maricopa County and supposed discrepancies in the ink used to print some ballots \u2014 allegations that had already been investigated.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI have to get a report in by (close of business) today, so was hoping to have some of the materials soon if at all possible,\u201d an HSI agent wrote in a follow-up email.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The attorney general\u2019s office provided materials assembled during an earlier investigation by Mark Brnovich, the Republican who led the office until 2023, prompting additional questions from the HSI official on March 5.\n <\/p>\n

\n Noem was fired by Trump that day, with her replacement by Mullin announced simultaneously. HSI\u2019s 2020-related queries to the state attorney general ceased, but separately, the Justice Department obtained records from another review of that election from Arizona\u2019s Republican-controlled Senate. There has been no public investigatory action in the federal 2020 probes in Arizona since then.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Under Mullin, DHS has made sweeping claims of foreigners polluting the voter rolls of Democratic-led states while at times overstating what has been uncovered while working with Republican election officials.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last month, DHS said it found more than 28,000 noncitizens (since revised to under 25,000) on the voter rolls of roughly two dozen mostly GOP-led states that voluntarily handed over their rolls.\n <\/p>\n

\n But officials in two of those states \u2013 Georgia and North Carolina \u2013 have questioned the findings, saying the numbers are likely inflated and require more scrutiny. Republican officials elsewhere have stressed that the matches produced by SAVE must go through additional rounds of vetting once the federal government hands them over to states.\n <\/p>\n

\n In Texas, one of the states DHS has touted for its cooperation, the secretary of state\u2019s office recently informed local election officials that some voters whose registrations were cancelled because of the SAVE review might need to be added back to the rolls, because the state had records indicating they had already proved their citizenship at the DMV.\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, DHS is urging states to let the administration inspect their voter rolls, noting that only state and local election officials \u2013 not the federal government \u2013 can remove voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n The DHS voter audit operation faces multiple lawsuits alleging the federal data system is leading to sloppy purges that disenfranchise eligible voters. In one of those cases, a court found the DHS violated privacy law in how it revamped the data program and issued a ruling that has blocked its use for most states.\n <\/p>\n

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\n DHS is appealing that ruling, and Mullin blasted it as coming from an \u201cactivist\u201d judge.\n <\/p>\n

\n The administration has not disclosed how many HSI investigations have led to referrals for prosecution or deportation beyond a small number of publicized cases. They include charges announced by the Justice Department this spring against several alleged noncitizen voters in New Jersey.\n <\/p>\n

\n Those charges predated Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill\u2019s disclosure that a state DMV error had mistakenly added thousands of noncitizens to New Jersey\u2019s voter rolls, nearly 400 of whom cast ballots, according to the governor.\n <\/p>\n

\n DHS officials say they\u2019re investigating the blunder to tee up prosecutions and deportations. Sherrill has refused the administration\u2019s request for data on those voters, saying \u201cThe request had no legal basis, and I will always protect New Jerseyans.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In Nevada, meanwhile, DHS last week requested that state election officials meet virtually with Mullin to discuss the thousands of potential noncitizens purportedly registered to vote. In emails obtained by CNN, DHS said it appreciated Nevada\u2019s \u201cwillingness to collaborate on this important effort\u201d and hoped to schedule \u201cas quickly as possible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A Nevada official waved off that request, telling DHS it had not adequately explained how it came up with its claims about the state\u2019s voter rolls.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOnce we receive and evaluate that information, we will be in a position to engage in a productive and meaningful discussion with your office,\u201d the official said.\n <\/p>\n

\n DHS replied that its analysis \u201cwas not done using SAVE\u201d and offered to explain its process and provide a list of suspected noncitizens during the meeting.\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cLet\u2019s set up a call,\u201d the Nevada official responded.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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