Monday’s late drop: an anonymous federal whistleblower alleges that DHS’s so-called “Unlawful Voter Initiative” told USCIS personnel to use DHS-held personal data to check state voter-registration websites, including sites that require users to attest they are the voter or have the voter’s permission. The disclosure alleges those attestations were false and could violate state law. That is not election security; that is trying to order a proper Italian sub by yelling through a CB radio and hoping nobody notices the transmission is nonsense. Primary disclosure (PDF) · AP reporting
The document says officers received roughly one hour and 45 minutes of training, then were expected to review at least five people per hour—40 a day—while determining whether someone was an “unlawful voter” and creating federal TECS law-enforcement records. The whistleblower alleges DHS training itself acknowledged that U.S. citizens could be in the data set. The disclosure specifically identifies Massachusetts among states whose voter lookup tools were flagged for attestation-related restrictions, because apparently somebody in Washington decided the Commonwealth’s rules were more like a suggestion scribbled on an empty Michelob bottle. Primary disclosure (PDF)
DHS disputed the account to AP, saying its personnel use publicly available voter-roll information and cross-reference it with agency records, and that the work is conducted diligently and professionally. That response does not resolve the whistleblower’s central allegations about false attestations, rushed case quotas, or potentially erroneous federal records—matters that now warrant actual oversight, not the usual federal shrug followed by onion rings. AP reporting and DHS response
Sources
- https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-noncitizen-voting-homeland-security-whistleblower-57f6d4bbc11347815020d2e5f241d6f9
- https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09.13.26-Senate-Whistleblower-Letter-DHS-USCIS_combined_signed.pdf
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