by WorldTribune Staff, September 1, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
President Donald Trump on Monday announced a crackdown on voter fraud with investigations in nine states after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that it found over 250,000 illegal aliens were registered to vote.
The president said the investigations would begin on Tuesday and would cover Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, and Connecticut.
Agents will be authorized to pursue investigative leads through mid-October.
“Election security is national security,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday. “As President Trump announced last night, DHS has identified over 250,000 potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in just 4 U.S. states. Only Americans should be electing American leaders.”
In July, Mullin sent 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.
Through preliminary reviews of the four states’ records, DHS reported it found that there may be as many as:
• 190,832 non-citizens registered to vote in California.
• 35,152 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey.
• 15,903 non-citizens registered to vote in Nevada.
• 14,576 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania.
The initiative will be carried out by Homeland Security Investigations, the arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically handles drug smuggling, human trafficking, and child exploitation.
DHS has demanded that states hand over their voter rolls for audits, while Mullin has repeatedly threatened to withhold grant funding from those that refuse to adopt the administration’s election reforms.
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