Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

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Source: msn/Axios

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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.

Why it matters: 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. It shows 100 documented cases of non-citizen voting between 1982 and 2025.

Driving the news: 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.

A separate records request showed another HSI agent asking last November for registration information for two voters in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

In the cases of Webb County in Texas and Forsyth County in North Carolina, the voter files were shared with HSI, the emails show.

HSI's fraud task force has investigated voter fraud before, but it's been a relatively small part of its investigative portfolio.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/exclusive-ice-obtains-local-voter-files-in-two-counties/ar-AA25ytUo

[snot]

1. How is this within ICE's remit?

If ICE can be used to seize voter files, what can't it be used for?

[wnylib]

2. Is this even legal? Any lawsuits coming over this?

[ananda]

3. Texas already handed over its voter rolls.

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[bluestarone]

5. Not sure about other members here, but

I kinda figured TEXAS would be the first state to do something like this!

[ananda]

6. Yeah, it was.

Paxton, Abbott, and Patrick are the
trifecta of evil.

[OhioBack2Blue]

9. DeWine is no saint...

Ohio does the exact same things but as quietly as possible, as late at night as possible and according to their own whims and urges not according to the law or court orders.

Ohio also turned over all voter rolls.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. I thought so, too, but I can never rule out North Carolina.

That 'Assembly' of idiots is going to die from suffocation, considering just how far up Orangina's ass they are.

[summer_in_TX]

8. My thought too. I wonder why they are demanding county-level info?

Don't they trust the state's voter rolls to be accurate?

[Attilatheblond]

4. Expect all manner of problems for people with Hispanic surnames when they try to vote

Where I live, lots of people with Hispanic surnames come from families rooted in this land since before the white people showed up. They are citizens and can vote. But I fully expect too many such solid citizens will have ballots tossed due to racism.

The more I see of Trump's hatred for those with different names and cultures, the more I wonder if it is rooted more deeply than his fear of GOP election losses. What if he, himself is not actually US born? His mom made a visit back to Scotland when pregnant with him. Did she come back to NY still pregnant, or carrying an infant? He sure seems more and more touchy re citizenship issues.

[patphil]

7. Trump's view of voting illegally means they didn't vote for him.

He's confusing the word illegally with the word intelligently.