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A federal review of voter data found no evidence of widespread voting fraud by non-citizens, contradicting frequent claims by voters president and his undocumented allies migrant People flocked to the polling stations.
below Trump administrationState and local elections departments have voluntarily submitted voter records to the Department of Homeland Security for review.
After checking some 49.5 million voter registrations, the department referred about 10,000 cases to Homeland Security Investigations For further inspection, officials Tell new york timesand not all flagged individuals are required to vote.
At least 14 Republican-controlled secretaries of state offices have publicly committed to using a federal screening tool known as Systematic Alien Rights Verification, a government program not designed for election vetting but to vet applicants for programs such as driver’s licenses. social Security benefit.
Researchers have long said there is no evidence that non-citizen voting is widespread, but President Trump His supporters often claim the opposite.
March, President Trump Sign executive order Requires proof of citizenship on federal voter registration form. Multiple federal courts have struck down parts of the order, including a ruling last week in Oregon.
The Trump administration also sued 23 states, most of them Democratic-led, as part of the lawsuit Justice Department launches separate effort to obtain sensitive voting dataThe campaign is a wake-up call for privacy experts and Democratic lawmakers who worry the information could be included in the Trump administration’s deportation system.
President uses allegations of fraudulent voting campaign to justify his actions Military crackdown on most Democratic-led cities.
“These cities and others like them are at the heart of the Democratic Party’s power centers, which use illegal aliens to expand their voter base, cheat in elections, develop the welfare state, and deprive hard-working American citizens of good-paying jobs and benefits,” Trump wrote in a June post on Truth Social.
Trump ally Elon Musk made similar noises.
“By exploiting welfare fraud, Democrats have been able to attract and retain large numbers of illegal immigrants,” Musk said on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast in March. “And buy voters. Basically, attract 10, 20 million people who are beholden to Democratic government handouts and will vote overwhelmingly Democratic, as California has proven.”
On the campaign trail, Trump and Vance frequently claimed that Democrats colluded with noncitizen voters to fraudulently influence the election.
“A lot of illegal immigrants are coming in and they’re trying to get them to vote,” Trump said. explain During a presidential debate in September. “They don’t even speak English. In fact, they don’t even know what country they are in.”
“when [Kamala Harris] “Let millions of illegal immigrants come in,” Vance said at a rally in Michigan that August. “It makes our communities less safe — but it does bring a lot of voters to the Democratic Party.”