Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

Source: msn/Axios

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ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios.

Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged noncitizen voting has evolved into a multi-agency effort reaching into state and local voter systems.

Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens, are voting illegally and that is why he lost the popular vote in 2016 and the general election in 2020.

Documented cases of non-citizen voting are rare: The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, tracks convictions and court records of voter fraud. It shows 100 documented cases of non-citizen voting between 1982 and 2025.

Driving the news: Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative unit within ICE, asked county election officials in Texas for specific voter files this May, according to emails obtained from records requests made by Democracy Forward and shared with Axios.

A separate records request showed another HSI agent asking last November for registration information for two voters in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

In the cases of Webb County in Texas and Forsyth County in North Carolina, the voter files were shared with HSI, the emails show.

HSI's fraud task force has investigated voter fraud before, but it's been a relatively small part of its investigative portfolio.

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