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ICE obtains local voter files in two counties
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ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios.
Key facts
- Heather Honey, an election integrity activist who became prominent challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania and Arizona, has also been in direct contact with the Texas Secretary
- While ICE Homeland Security Investigations is not able to comment on any active investigations, HSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found," a DHS
- Trump signed an executive order in March 2025 that said the U.S. was currently failing to protect elections and enforce federal law
- Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative unit within ICE, asked county election officials in Texas for specific voter files this May, according to emails obtained from records
Summary
President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged noncitizen voting has evolved into a multi-agency effort reaching into state and local voter systems. Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens, are voting illegally and that is why he lost the popular vote in 2016 and the general election in 2020. Documented cases of non-citizen voting are rare: The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, tracks convictions and court records of voter fraud. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative unit within ICE, asked county election officials in Texas for specific voter files this May, according to emails obtained from records requests made by Democracy Forward and shared with Axios.