Folks, I’m sipping my coffee and reading about the Department of Homeland Security’s election-fraud operation, and let me tell you, it’s a doozy. According to newly obtained internal documents, the operation has drawn on tens of millions of records, scrutinized dozens of nonprofit voter-registration groups, and even considered deploying undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register to vote. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, right? The documents, released by the advocacy group Democracy Forward, offer a detailed look inside one arm of the Trump administration’s escalating election-integrity campaign.
The records show that Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative division of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, described the undertaking as a phased national initiative involving voter-roll acquisition, data analysis, investigative leads, and field investigations. It’s like they’re trying to solve a puzzle, but the puzzle is, well, voter fraud. The operation drew on extraordinarily large pools of data, with investigators ingesting 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset and another 48.4 million records obtained through “independent sources of information.” I wonder who these independent sources are, but I guess that’s a story for another time.
Heather Honey, a senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, played a significant role in the initiative, and her previous work challenging the integrity of the 2020 election has been, um, let’s say, “embraced” by Trump and his allies. Internally, DHS personnel sought to add officials working under Honey to the distribution of HSI’s weekly voter-fraud reports, while another report explicitly attributed the 48.4 million-record dataset to her. It’s like they’re all working together to, you know, “make election integrity great again.”
Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman said in a statement, “It appears the president and his allies want to pick their voters, as opposed to the way things are supposed to function in a democracy where voters pick their leaders.” Well, that’s one way to look at it, Skye. CNN has reached out to DHS for comment, but I’m sure they’ll just say something like, “We’re committed to ensuring the integrity of our elections.” Yeah, right.
The documents also show that investigators were looking well beyond individual suspected voters, adopting a “network-based investigative approach, prioritizing organization and facilitation analysis over individual leads.” They reviewed dozens of nonprofits and voter-registration organizations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other states, and examined organizations linked to an Ohio company suspected of voter-registration fraud. But, surprise, surprise, several of those reviews turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. Investigators said they found no derogatory information on dozens of New Jersey groups they examined, and no suspicious financial activity in another nonprofit review. I guess that’s what happens when you go on a witch hunt.
However, records previously reviewed by CNN showed that in Franklin County, Ohio, an HSI agent pressed election officials for information on several groups, including the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a progressive voter-turnout organization that federal agents raided in June. And, get this, HSI contemplated more aggressive investigative tactics, including using undercover agents to engage with organizations suspected of encouraging or facilitating illegal voter registration by noncitizens. New Jersey and Pennsylvania were identified as areas of focus, because, you know, those states are just so corrupt.
In conclusion, the Department of Homeland Security’s election-fraud operation is a big deal, folks. They’re looking at millions of records, scrutinizing nonprofit groups, and even considering using undercover agents. But, let’s be real, it’s all just a big show. I mean, they’re not going to find any widespread voter fraud, because it just doesn’t exist. So, I’ll just sit back, sip my coffee, and enjoy the spectacle. And who knows, maybe they’ll even find some “voter fraud” in the process, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. 🙄
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