MI-SOS: Forlini (R) says federal government helped him find 7 noncitizens registered to vote [View all]

[RandySF]

Republican secretary of state candidate and Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini said he has used his county’s jury pool to find more potential noncitizens registered to vote — and this time, he said the federal government is helping him to verify people’s citizenship.

It’s not the first time Forlini has used the jury pool to try to find potential noncitizen voters. But Forlini told Votebeat on Monday that Macomb County now has “other methods” of checking citizenship “that we didn’t have before.”

Forlini is working with federal officials who have access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database, a tool maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to verify a person’s citizenship. He does not have access himself — local officials rarely do — but by collaborating with federal officials, his team is still able to verify information, he said.

It was not clear which specific federal department he was working with, though. “I can’t tell you offhand,” Forlini said in a phone interview Monday morning. “I honestly don’t know.”




https://www.votebeat.org/michigan/2026/05/19/anthony-forlini-federal-government-noncitizen-voters-secretary-of-state-candidate/