Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday the department identified roughly 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada, and an additional 28,000 in five other states. Mullin also said DHS found 400,000 deceased individuals still appearing on voter rolls nationwide.
Mullin demanded state election officials run their rolls through a federal DHS database within two weeks, threatening to withhold FEMA grants and pursue fines, penalties, or prison time for noncompliance. He pledged to aggressively prosecute anyone who votes illegally in the upcoming midterms.
A federal judge blocked the use of the DHS database, ruling it violated Social Security disclosure rules and risked wrongful purging of eligible voters. The announcements followed President Donald Trump's primetime address reviving disputed election claims.