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After DHS Release of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls, How Have States Responded?

A week after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to top election officials in four states warning of hundreds of thousands of potential noncitizens on their voter rolls, only New Jersey has admitted to a problem. The other three states have been either noncommittal in responding or have pushed back on Mullin’s claims.

The Department of Homeland Security investigation found California, the nation’s most populous state, had as many as 190,832 noncitizens on its voter rolls based on a review of records matching names with birthdates, federal immigration records, addresses, and Social Security numbers.

The agency, using a similar cross-check of known voter data, found as many as 15,903 noncitizens registered to vote in Nevada, and as many as 14,576 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania. These battleground states went to Trump in 2024 and to Joe Biden in 2020. In total, the agency said it found about a total of 256,463 potential noncitizens on the four states’ voter rolls.

Notably, the DHS found New Jersey had as many as 35,152 noncitizens registered to vote. Gov. Mikie Sherrill said this week that 6,600 noncitizens were registered at the state’s motor vehicles department, and fewer than 400 had actually voted.

Last Friday, one day after President Donald Trump’s primetime address on election integrity, Mullin wrote letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, New Jersey Secretary of State Dale Caldwell, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt........

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