Lawsuit Aims to Stop Trump Admin’s Push to ID Noncitizen Voters
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Trump administration effort to send hundreds of investigators to search for noncitizen voters is illegally intimidating naturalised U.S. citizens and putting them at risk of being disenfranchised, a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups aims to stop the practice.
Also Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and affiliates filed a lawsuit in California federal court alleging that the administration is demanding state election officials deny ballots to certain voters based on flawed eligibility data, potentially undermining confidence in next week’s midterm elections.
President Donald Trump, whose Republican Party is in a tight battle to keep control of both chambers of Congress, has often claimed that noncitizen voting is rampant in US elections, a claim that has been largely discredited.
The campaign to find noncitizen voting has led to more than 100 subpoenas for records on tens of thousands of voters in at least a dozen states, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The administration can’t continue to pull political stunts that spread distrust in our elections and set the stage to challenge results they don’t like,” Theresa Lee, an attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said in a statement. The case names the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services and Director Joseph Edlow as defendants. The DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In August, DHS launched the Unlawful Voter Initiative, which instructed US Citizenship and Immigration Services officials to compile names of people to investigate for possibly voting without being a US citizen, as required by law.
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