Virginia AG Investigates DHS for Possible Election Law Violations
Virginia's attorney general accuses DHS of violating election laws after whistleblower claims agents were tasked with finding noncitizen voters.
POLICY WIRE — Richmond, Va. — Virginia’s attorney general has raised concerns that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated state election laws following a whistleblower report alleging that federal employees were instructed to use voter lookup tools to identify noncitizen voters.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Attorney General Jay Jones demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirm whether any employees accessed Virginia voters’ information without proper authorization. The state’s election code prohibits the disclosure of voter data to the federal government without a court order, and the tools are only available to individuals verifying their own records.
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The whistleblower report, shared by Democratic Senate leaders, claims that DHS staff were trained to review 40 individuals per day to determine if they were legal voters, creating federal records for those who were not. This comes as President Trump’s administration continues to assert that noncitizen voting is a significant source of election fraud, despite research showing such cases are extremely rare.
Reporting by Policy-Wire (PW)
