“The president issued an executive order in March 2025 that expanded the role of the Department of Homeland Security effectively in screening voter eligibility, giving the federal government a role that it hadn't really taken on in quite such an assertive posture before”
WSJ What’s News · Navigating the Midterms: From Legal Challenges to Voter Rights
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expanded the Department of Homeland Security’s role to screen voter eligibility using a federal immigration database
Said nearby on the same subject
“The lawsuit seeks to block California from counting mail-in ballots from roughly 20,000 voters identified by federal authorities as suspected non-citizens, relying on cross-reference federal databases.”
“The big takeaway from the email is the Department of Homeland Security has found 185 non-citizens in Nevada. A hundred and eighty-five people was a long way from the almost 16,000 they started with.”
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“The Trump Justice Department has filed a federal lawsuit arguing that voter confusion could invalidate the outcome”