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State officials are pushing back on the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s claims that it found tens of thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls, asking the department to explain how it arrived at its conclusion. <\/p>\n

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Ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s primetime speech from the White House earlier this month in which he made sweeping claims of voter fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to officials in Nevada, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey, saying he believed the four states had more than 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls combined. During a news conference the day after Trump\u2019s speech, Mullin threatened officials with potential prison time if they do not \u201csecure their elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of Mullin\u2019s requested two-week deadline for response, officials in California, Nevada and Pennsylvania sent back letters questioning where DHS got its data. All three states have declined to share private state voter roll data that includes personal identifying information like Social Security numbers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe American public deserves transparency in how their private information is being used at the federal level,\u201d Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, said in an interview Thursday. \u201cI don\u2019t believe the federal government is being honest with the American people.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re gathering private information about citizens, but they\u2019re not explaining how they\u2019re doing it, and it may not be accurate. And to classify somebody as not able to exercise their constitutional fundamental rights is a real harm,\u201d Aguilar added.<\/p>\n

In separate letters to Mullin dated Wednesday, Aguilar and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt, a Republican,questioned how the federal government arrived at its conclusions without the unredacted voter rolls that the Justice Department has sued each state to obtain. <\/p>\n

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\u201cHow did your department match social security numbers to Nevada registrants and what data sources did you use if not the voter information provided by\u201d the secretary of state, Aguilar wrote in his letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, past analyses of voter lists have relied on faulty methodologies that can lead to inaccurate results and false claims about the citizenship status of eligible voters,\u201d Schmidt wrote. \u201cPlease provide a document explaining your methodology, which identifies the data sources you relied on.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new responses from state officials.<\/p>\n

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California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, asked Mullin in a July 23 letter to share the information of anyone who gave the federal government private voter data, as it is a crime under state law. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have serious doubts about the reliability of your data and accuracy of your claims, since my office has not shared our statewide voter registration list with DHS or any other federal agency or official. Indeed, state law prohibits sharing voters\u2019 sensitive information, including social security numbers, with any person, including the federal government,\u201d Weber wrote.<\/p>\n

Weber asked for details on the federal government\u2019s analysis, including data sources and whether artificial intelligence was used. <\/p>\n

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Noncitizen voting is illegal and rare. Sometimes, noncitizens do end up on states\u2019 voter rolls, but, historically, few have attempted to cast a ballot.<\/p>\n

Days after Trump\u2019s speech, Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, the fourth state singled out by the Trump administration, announced that officials had uncovered a Motor Vehicle Commission error that led to around 6,600 self-identified noncitizens being registered to vote and that roughly 400 cast ballots between 2023 and 2024. The number of noncitizens that New Jersey found on its voter rolls fell short of the 35,000 that DHS claimed. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration later asked New Jersey to hand over details on the registrants, but Sherrill said in a letter that the state would not share that information with the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cDOJ will get this information through all legal means!\u201d Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon responded in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Sherrill\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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