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DHS agents allegedly directed to 'misrepresent' themselves to access state voter rolls, whistleblower claims
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A whistleblower claims DHS has directed agents to "misrepresent" themselves and "violate state laws" in a voter probe, Democratic lawmakers say.
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DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate US citizens, whistleblower alleges
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DHS agents allegedly directed to 'misrepresent' themselves to access state voter rolls, whistleblower claims
A whistleblower alleges that agents under the Trump administration’s Unlawful Voter Initiative were directed to unlawfully access state voter records and to misrepresent themselves as voters, potentially violating state laws while seeking to validate broad claims of noncitizen voting.
A whistleblower has alleged that federal investigators violated state law in a desperate attempt to find proof of President Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud. Agents at the Department of Homeland Security have been posing as voters, entering people’s personal voting information (like Social Sec…
Department of Homeland Security employees were instructed to access state voter databases in ways a whistleblower alleges violate state law, according to a new report. Why it matters: The policy signals the Trump administration's persistence in trying to root out purported voter fraud by any means n…
Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Homeland Security leaders as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation’s voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower’s account released Monday.
By Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is using legally questionable tactics and relying on unreliable data to investigate non-citizen voting, a whistleblower alleged in a report released by top Senate Democrats Monday.
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.
NEW YORK (AP) — A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Mon…
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws arou…
NEW YORK — A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Monday.
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.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees were told to pose as voters while searching for noncitizens on state voter rolls, according to a whistleblower report released Monday. Employees were given sensitive information for people flagged as potential “unlawful voters” and instructed to search…
