ICE tried using Palantir to review voter roll information?
ICE tried using Palantir to review voter roll information?
ICE is now investigating the people who help Americans register to vote.
According to internal government documents obtained by the legal nonprofit Democracy Forward, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, spent the past year scrutinizing hundreds of nonprofits and organizations involved in voter registration, including at least 82 organizations in Pennsylvania and 41 in New Jersey.
These documents were obtained through a recent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and they show the agency considered using undercover agents to communicate with organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register to vote.
A June report says investigators had taken in 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset, plus another 48.4 million records obtained through what the document calls “independent sources.” That’s nearly 100 million records being analyzed for potential investigative leads. This year, Homeland Security Investigations said it had opened 418 voter-fraud cases, but 318 of those 418 cases had not been referred for prosecution........
