2026-08-31T18:22:44.001Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
据CNN获得的联邦内部指导文件显示，美国国土安全部计划从周二起，在部分州加大选民欺诈调查力度。
美国国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林已加快工作部署，将该部门打造成唐纳德·特朗普总统所谓的大范围选举欺诈调查行动的核心力量。国土安全部已敦促各州提交选民名册用于审计，并威胁将拒绝采纳更广泛选举改革措施的州扣留拨款。
该部门的调查工作主要依托下属的国土安全调查局——美国移民及海关执法局的分支部门，该机构通常负责打击人口贩运、毒品走私和儿童剥削等重大犯罪。该局已 unprecedentedly 增派大量特工参与相关案件，包括追查被认为是非公民的人员的投票历史，这些人可能存在非法投票或登记投票的行为。
专家表示，没有证据表明近期选举中存在大范围选民欺诈行为。
根据该指导文件，国土安全调查局将于周二启动“ coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative”，以追踪调查线索、开展实地访谈并协助及时进行检察审查。
指导文件显示，从9月初到10月中旬，华盛顿州、威斯康星州、密苏里州、佐治亚州、加利福尼亚州、宾夕法尼亚州、内华达州、纽约州和康涅狄格州这9个州的办事处将开展调查行动。
此次专项行动正值中期选举拉开帷幕，指导文件中提及的调查步骤引发关注。长期以来，美国司法部的政策都不鼓励在选举临近阶段开展此类“公开”调查行动，称此类行动可能影响选举。
司法部手册中写道：“反其道而行之可能会 chill 合法投票和竞选活动，并将调查本身卷入正在进行的竞选活动以及随后的选举争议裁决中。不过，在与公共诚信部门协商后，在存在立即需要采取公开措施的情况下，将相关信息和指控分享给州或地方当局通常是合适的。”
特朗普首届政府期间正式废除了这项政策，但司法部仍大体遵守，而拜登总统执政期间该政策得以恢复。
但国土安全部作为独立部门，无需遵守该政策，且新的指导文件未提及此类时间安排方面的顾虑。
CNN已联系国土安全部征求评论。
特朗普政府时期，有特工被指派调查归化美国公民是否在入籍前登记或投票，CNN此前曾报道。另一份备忘录指示国土安全调查局特工与美国公民及移民服务局协调，在发现非公民涉嫌或与选民欺诈有关联时启动驱逐程序。
尽管投入了大量资源调查选举欺诈，但该政府仅提起了为数不多的公诉案件，大多针对非公民投票或非法登记投票的案件。
尽管如此，该政府仍大肆宣传所谓的选民欺诈逮捕行动。上周，美国司法部宣布逮捕一名合法居住在美国的洪都拉斯国民，并指控其欺诈性登记投票以及谎称自己是美国公民。
“此次逮捕只是众多行动的开端，”美国第一助理检察官比尔·埃塞利在一份声明中说道。
与此同时，穆林将自己定位为特朗普选民欺诈打击行动的主要执行者。今年夏天早些时候，他的部门宣布对公开选民名册的审计显示，仅加利福尼亚州、宾夕法尼亚州、新泽西州和内华达州这四个州就有超过25万名登记在册的非公民。
“我喜欢数据和事实的一点在于，它们不会说谎，”穆林当时对记者表示，并警告称未能确保中期选举安全的选举官员可能面临罚款甚至监禁。
但到目前为止，这些数据远不如国土安全部最初暗示的那样确凿。该部门曾公开宣称在内华达州的选民名册中发现了近1.6万名非公民。但据CNN审查的内部记录显示，该部门私下向内华达州最高选举官员承认，仅确认了其中185人。另有6200人被标记为“可信度更高的匹配对象”，但仍需进一步审核。
Exclusive: DHS plans to launch voter fraud investigation surge Tuesday
2026-08-31T18:22:44.001Z / CNN
The Department of Homeland Security is planning a surge in its efforts to investigate voter fraud in select states starting Tuesday, according to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has accelerated efforts to make the department a central force in President Donald Trump’s hunt for purported widespread election fraud. DHS has pushed states to share their voter rolls for audit and has vowed to withhold grant funding from those that refuse to adopt a broader set of election reforms.
The department has leaned for investigative work on one of its agencies — Homeland Security Investigations — an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically tackles major crimes like human trafficking, drug smuggling and child exploitation. The agency has already surged an unprecedented number of agents to work on cases, including chasing down voter histories of people believed to be noncitizens who may have illegally voted or registered to vote.
Experts say there is no evidence that widespread voter fraud has occurred in recent elections.
Starting Tuesday, HSI is launching a “coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review,” the guidance says.
Offices in nine states are expected to take investigative action from early September to mid-October, according to the guidance. Those states include Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut.
The guidance’s reference to investigative steps is notable given the push comes as midterm elections get underway. Such “overt” investigatory actions while elections were approaching have historically been discouraged, under long-standing Justice Department policy limiting investigative actions could influence elections.
“Doing otherwise runs the risk of chilling legitimate voting and campaign activities and of interjecting the investigation itself into ongoing campaigns and the adjudication of any ensuing election contest,” the Justice Department manual says. “It may, however, often be appropriate, in consultation with the Public Integrity Section, to share information and allegations involving such matters with state or local authorities where an immediate need for overt measures exists.”
The DOJ formally rescinded the policy under the first Trump administration but still mostly abided by it, and it was reinstated under President Joe Biden.
But DHS, as a separate department, is not obligated to follow the policy, and the new guidance makes no reference to those timing concerns.
CNN reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
Under the Trump administration, agents have, for example, been assigned to investigate whether naturalized US citizens registered or voted before becoming citizens, CNN previously reported. Another memo directed HSI agents to coordinate with US Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin removal proceedings when a noncitizen is suspected of or linked to voter fraud.
Despite the dramatic shift of resources toward investigating election fraud, the administration has brought only a handful of prosecutions — mostly targeting cases of noncitizens voting or being unlawfully registered to vote.
Still, the administration has touted alleged election fraud arrests. Last week, the Justice Department announced that a Honduran national who was legally living in the United States had been arrested and charged with fraudulently registering to vote and falsely claiming to be a US citizen.
“Today’s arrest is the first of many to come,” First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement.
Mullin, meanwhile, has positioned himself as a leading enforcer of Trump’s voter-fraud crackdown. Earlier this summer, his department announced an audit of public voter rolls had identified more than 250,000 registered noncitizens in just four states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.
“One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin told reporters at the time, warning that election officials who fail to secure the midterms could face fines or even jail time.
But the numbers have, thus far, proved far less definitive than DHS initially suggested. The department publicly claimed it had found nearly 16,000 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls. But behind closed doors, the department acknowledged to the state’s top election officials that it had “confirmed” just 185 of them, according to internal records reviewed by CNN. Another 6,200 were labeled “higher confidence matches” — but still required further vetting.