2026-09-14T21:42:17.341Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
一名举报人在参议院民主党高层周一发布的一份报告中指控，美国国土安全部正使用存法律争议的手段，并依赖不可靠的数据调查非公民投票行为。
这些爆料引发了民主党和选民维权人士的谴责，他们称这是一场范围广泛的“大搜捕”，可能牵连到合法选民。此前，唐纳德·特朗普总统已将寻找大规模非公民投票的证据——研究显示此类情况极为罕见——作为其政府的首要任务。
举报人爆料的核心内容，主要围绕针对负责执行“非法选民倡议”调查行动的国土安全部特工的培训材料。
举报人的律师在报告中表示，该行动正对“50个州的选民记录”展开排查，目标涉及多达数十万人。特工们被下令调查非公民，以及可能在入籍前就进行选民登记或投票的归化美国公民。
该计划于8月底启动后，在美国公民及移民服务局欺诈调查组工作的国土安全部特工仅获得数周时间，就需要梳理数千人的选民记录，并为被认定为非法投票的人员创建名为TECS的执法档案。
举报人报告指控称，特工们对部分审查所用数据的来源一无所知，即便特工“合理认为国土安全部的源数据可靠性不足，不足以支持创建TECS档案”，相关人员仍会被标记为非法选民。
这类标记可能会对这些个人未来与政府打交道时产生影响，比如在过境时面临更严格的筛查，以及遭到国土安全部的进一步调查。但民主党人士周一指出，该行动暴露了特朗普更广的目标：动摇人们对选举的信心，尤其是在民主党有望在今年秋季夺回至少一个国会两院席位的背景下。
“事实是，这与保护我们的选举诚信毫无关系，”加州参议员亚历克斯·帕迪拉在周一的新闻发布会上表示，“这只是一个借口。其真正目的是利用编造的证据恐吓选民、剥夺合格美国公民的投票权，甚至破坏或质疑11月的选举结果，这是特朗普的经典套路。”
CNN已联系国土安全部，征求其对举报人报告的置评。
特朗普政府总体为其行动辩护，称其目标是确保只有拥有合法投票权的人才能够投票。
培训材料指示特工通过州选民登记门户获取目标对象的信息，甚至要求特工假扮选民查看其投票记录——这一行为可能违反州法律。报告称，当特工们提出担忧，认为以这种方式使用州门户系统可能违法时，上级告诉他们，“如果作为公职人员开展这些调查并妥善留存记录，个人不会承担法律责任”。
“如果这项行动真的合法，那为什么国土安全部领导层必须向特工承诺他们不会被追责？这本身就很说明问题，”帕迪拉说道。
举报人投诉指出，特工们被下达了每日至少审查40人的指标，迫使他们在数分钟内完成对个人身份、公民身份、投票及登记记录的核实——这一节奏大幅增加了合法选民被错误调查的风险。
周日，参议院民主党人致信国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林，要求其停止该行动。州门户系统的使用方式最早于9月初由《纽约时报》报道。
这些指控正值国土安全部选民欺诈调查出现新的激增之际——美国有线电视新闻网两周前首次对此进行了报道，该部门也明确表示将成为特朗普选举议程的关键推动者。
举报人报告称，特工用于识别潜在非公民选民的联邦公民记录存在准确性缺陷，这一点广为人知，甚至在培训材料中也得到了承认。但即便数据存在关键缺口，特工仍被要求继续推进。在随报告发布的培训笔录节选内容中，一名讲师在培训视频中曾表示，记录中的关键信息可能会在之后“通过补充的‘魔法手段’补上”。
这名举报人由“民主卫士”代理，该组织曾在法庭上反对多项特朗普政府的政策。
CNN记者摩根·里默为本报道贡献了内容。
DHS is using legally questionable tactics to investigate voter fraud, whistleblower says
2026-09-14T21:42:17.341Z / CNN
The Department of Homeland Security is using legally questionable tactics and relying on unreliable data to investigate non-citizen voting, a whistleblower alleged in a report released by top Senate Democrats Monday.
The disclosures prompted accusations by Democrats and voter advocates of a sweeping dragnet that could ensnare eligible voters, as President Donald Trump has made finding proof of mass non-citizen voting — shown in studies to be exceedingly rare — a top priority of his administration.
Much of the whistleblower’s disclosures focused on training materials for DHS agents tasked with carrying out an investigatory effort known as the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.”
The effort is looking at voter records of “50 states and is targeted at up to hundreds of thousands of individuals,” lawyers for the whistleblower said in the report. Officers were ordered to investigate noncitizens as well as naturalized US citizens who may have registered or voted before they were naturalized.
After the late August launch of program, DHS agents working in a fraud detection unit of US Citizenship and Immigration Services were given just a few weeks to sift through the voter records of thousands of individuals and create law enforcement files known as TECS records for individuals determined to have voted unlawfully.
The whistleblower report alleges that the agents are being kept in the dark about the sources of some of the data being used in the review, and the process leads to individuals being tagged as unlawful voters even if the agent “reasonably believes that the DHS source data is not reliable enough to justify creating a TECS record.”
The flag could have implications for those individuals in their dealings with the government going forward, setting them up for increased screenings when crossing the border and more investigation by DHS. But Democrats alleged Monday that the initiative demonstrates Trump’s broader goal to sow doubt about elections, particularly as Democrats are expecting to win back control of at least one chamber of Congress this fall.
“The truth is, this has nothing to do with protecting the integrity of our elections,” California Sen. Alex Padilla said at a press conference Monday. “That’s just a pretext. It’s about the potential of using manufactured evidence to intimidate voters, to disenfranchise eligible Americans and even undermine or challenge this November’s election results, a classic Trump play.”
CNN has reached out to DHS for comment on the whistleblower report.
The Trump administration has broadly defended its efforts by saying its goal is to ensure that only people legally entitled to cast ballots do so.
The training materials instructed agents to use state voter registration portals to obtain information about their targets, instructing the agents — potentially in violation of state law — to pose as the voters to view their voter records. When agents raised concerns that using the state portals in that way could be illegal, they were told by superiors that they were “not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented,” according to the report.
“If this effort is truly legal, then why does DHS leadership have to promise its officers that they’re not going to be held liable? That says a lot,” Padilla said.
Officers have been given a quota to review at least 40 people per day, forcing them to confirm their identity, citizenship, and voting and registration record in a matter of minutes — a pace that compounds the risk that lawful voters will be investigated by mistake, the whistleblower complaint argued.
On Sunday, Senate Democrats sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, demanding he cease the operation. The use of the state portals was first reported by the New York Times in early September.
The allegations come amid a new surge of voter fraud investigations at DHS, which CNN first reported two weeks ago, as the department signals its role as a key driver of Trump’s election agenda.
The accuracy flaws in the federal citizenship records that agents are using for identifying potential non-citizen voters are well known and acknowledged even in the training materials, the whistleblower report alleges. But agents are nonetheless instructed to press on, even when key gaps in the data remain. At one point in a training video, the instructor says that key information in the record might be added later on, “through supplemental magic,” according to transcription excerpts of the training released with the report.
The whistleblower is being represented by Democracy Defenders, an organization that has opposed many Trump policies in court.
CNN’s Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.
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