‘The Problem Is Infinitesimal’: What the Trump Administration's Intensifying Hunt for Non-Citizen Voters Is Showing

With the midterms approaching, the Trump Administration has ramped up its investigations into non-citizen voting around the U.S. But far from substantiating the President’s claims of widespread fraud, the results the effort is producing appear to underscore how vanishingly rare non-citizens registering or casting ballots is.In recent months, the Administration has doubled down on its push to access and review state voter rolls with the stated goal of cracking down on fraud and threatened to withhold funding or prosecute election officials if they don’t purge any improperly registered non-citizens. In the lead-up to the November elections, the Administration has also reportedly diverted a number of federal personnel to an effort to scour voter rolls for non-citizens—an initiative a federal whistleblower has alleged may have involved methods that violate state laws.A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official tells TIME that the department’s principal investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),“is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found.” “We have repeatedly demonstrated that aliens can and do vote in our elections. Under Pres...