A whistleblower claimed a Department of Homeland Security effort to investigate voter fraud violated state laws, a charge the agency denies.
On Monday, Senate Democrats announced their reveal of a whistleblower complaint regarding a DHS effort to investigate voter fraud. According to the whistleblower, DHS had directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers to violate state laws as part of its “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” which seeks to gather evidence about voter fraud.
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The complaint, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) claimed, said DHS forced its agents to use “illegal procedures and questionable data to identify purported ‘unlawful voters,’ and create federal law enforcement records against them, including naturalized U.S. citizens.”
Among the illegal procedures was an alleged directive to use personal information acquired from DHS data to lie on state voter registration websites, falsely claiming that they were either a voter or acting with their authorization to access sensitive data.
“Donald Trump and his Administration are obsessed with election conspiracy theories and operate under the wrong assumption that they are above the law — they are not,” Padilla said. “The whistleblower’s disclosure outlines shocking allegations of unlawful and unethical conduct that includes potentially thousands of violations of state law and the use of highly questionable data, which...
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