In today’s news that’s surprising to no one who’s been paying attention, a whistleblower alleges that Department of Homeland Security investigators may have broken state laws in their attempts to investigate voter rolls.

According to the New York Times, the whistleblower’s report details what the Department of Homeland Security is calling the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” The whistleblower alleged that the Department is requiring investigators to hit a quota of at least 40 voters a day, and raised concerns that the pace prevents them from doing proper investigations. The whistleblower added that the initiative has likely incorrectly flagged U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.

Democracy Defenders Fund, which helped produce the report, said the whistleblower has remained anonymous due to “an extreme fear of retaliation, but they feel an obligation to speak up about the misconduct and gross mismanagement they have witnessed.”

From the New York Times:

The whistleblower also questioned the legality of a crucial part of the operation, with investigators effectively posing as individual voters by using personally identifiable information compiled from both internal and external sources, such as birth dates or partial Social Security numbers, to look up voter records.

The agents plugged those names and personal data into public-facing state websites to find a subject’s voter history. Some states, such as Virginia, declare explicitly that only individual voters may use the...

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