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The False Fear of Noncitizen Voting
And yet the SAVE Act is only one front of the attack on our democracy. There are other examples of disturbing ways that the Trump Administration is fearmongering about immigrants, effectively sowing mistrust in our electoral systems.
Since May 2025, the Department of Justice has demanded that nearly all states and the District of Columbia turn over full, unredacted voter rolls, including driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers. When most of those states refused, DOJ filed lawsuits against 30 of them and D.C. For the states that did provide the data, DOJ then shared it with the Department of Homeland Security to supposedly “scrub aliens from voter rolls.”
Since then, the pressure has only escalated. In July, a day after Trump gave a primetime speech in which he again railed against immigrants, made unsubstantiated claims of noncitizen voting and demanded that states change their election policies, Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin then threatened state election officials with prison time if they don’t acquiesce to Trump’s demands.
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