2026-09-24T10:02:40.482Z / 路透社
9月24日（路透社）——据路透社看到的一封内部邮件显示，白宫已敦促联邦机构加快审查国土安全部获取的至少47个州的选民名册，这是在中期选举临近之际，为查找登记选民中的非公民而开展的史无前例行动的一部分。
现任和前任官员透露，近几个月来，国土安全部已从全美各地安全和移民机构调集数百名官员，根据其“非法选民倡议”对选民名册进行排查，寻找选民欺诈证据。
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这封由国土安全部官员于9月1日发出的邮件向同事们通报了选民名册审查工作，从中可以看出该行动由白宫直接指挥，同时也显示机构官员正难以达到既定目标。邮件中提到，某国土安全部官员“提出，如果我们无法取得进展，将就此向白宫办公厅主任汇报”，这里指的是白宫办公厅主任苏西·瓦尔斯。
邮件还透露，该机构正借助一家商业数据经纪商来获取公开选民名册中未包含的敏感选民信息，官员和专家警告称，这可能导致公民被错误标记为非法选民并可能遭到拘留。
此次审查是唐纳德·特朗普总统为证明其长期以来的主张而做出的最新尝试——他声称美国选举中存在广泛的非公民投票现象，但这一说法因缺乏证据而多次被推翻。
特朗普政府还敦促共和党在至少15个地区“将选举全国化”，并试图限制邮寄投票，尽管美国宪法将选举管理的主要权力赋予各州，而非联邦政府。
批评人士表示，追查非公民选民是削弱选举信心的 broader 战略的一部分，并警告此举可能剥夺合法选民的投票权。多项研究和审计——包括路透社7月份的分析——都发现，美国选举中违规投票的数量在统计上微不足道。
路透社本周发现，自2000年以来，由于软件故障和文书错误，各州可能已向其选民名册中添加了3万多名非公民，但目前尚不清楚其中有多少人实际投了票。专家表示，相对于该国1.7亿登记选民而言，这一数字过小，不足以影响选举结果。
路透社7月份的审查发现，自1996年《外国人投票法》颁布以来，仅有129人根据该法案被起诉。而特朗普政府在随后几个月内已至少对20多人提起了该法案下的诉讼。
白宫在一份声明中表示，所有潜在的非公民投票案件都将被追查。国土安全部称，其调查工作“严格依照法律勤勉、专业地开展”，为“选举结果的真实性提供了必要保障”。
误报情况
目前尚不清楚国土安全部是如何获取9月邮件中提及的47个州的选民名册的。
自去年重新执政以来，特朗普政府已要求几乎所有州提供未编辑的完整选民名册。据纽约大学法学院布伦南司法中心的数据，至少有16个州同意交出未做任何删减的完整名册，但大多数州都拒绝配合。
因此，国土安全部似乎只能依赖公开版本的选民名册，这类名册已移除部分个人数据，如驾照和社会安全号码。邮件显示，为填补这些信息空白，国土安全部已通过购买Accurint的服务来“丰富”经编辑删减的名册，Accurint是一家收集并出售个人数据的私营机构。
拥有Accurint的律商联讯拒绝置评。
邮件显示，联邦调查人员正将扩充后的选民名册数据与其他政府数据库记录进行比对，包括移民海关执法局、美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）、美国国务院和社会保障管理局的记录，以识别潜在的非公民。
“我们目前有1620个正在调查中的案件，”国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林周六对福克斯新闻表示，“而且这个名单每天都在增加。”
但邮件指出，国土安全部获取的部分选民名册缺少关键细节，如出生年份，这使得跨多个数据库进行匹配变得困难。
另一名美国官员表示，近几周提交给探员的线索中经常出现误报，包括与移民同名的美国公民。一位熟悉该行动的人士补充说，行动还错误地将在国外出生的美国公民纳入排查范围。
邮件称，国土安全部仅“有一定程度的信心”认为被该审查标记的个人是非公民，且“已登记投票和/或实际投了票”。
前国土安全部副总法律顾问克里·多伊尔表示，即使只是被标记，也会带来非常现实的生活后果，包括在航空旅行时受到额外审查，以及在申请入籍时可能遇到麻烦。
“一旦系统中留下标记，就很难消除，这会彻底打乱你的生活，”多伊尔说道。
白宫的角色
据三位知情人士透露，通常负责处理合法移民申请的美国公民及移民服务局，自8月起已将数百名欺诈调查和国家安全官员重新分配到该行动中，为期至少三周。
其中一位人士表示，官员们被设定的目标是每小时核查五个姓名，并指出这一目标很少能达成。
这位美国官员称，国土安全调查局（通常负责调查人口贩运等跨境犯罪的移民海关执法局分支部门）的探员也被指示增派资源，以确定潜在的非公民是否会因非法投票而被起诉。
邮件显示，在8月底与白宫通话后，国土安全部官员召开了一次会议，会上“移民海关执法局团队似乎既不清楚其领导层已承诺的任务，也不确定自己能否实际执行，尤其是在要求的工作量规模下”。
一些州表示，该政府无法为其猖獗的选民欺诈主张提供证据支撑。
例如在内华达州，国土安全部7月份表示已在该州选民名册中识别出近1.6万名潜在非公民。据内华达州州务卿办公室透露，在该州要求提供证据时，国土安全部称这一数字是初步的，仅核实了其中185起案件。
该办公室表示，国土安全部拒绝提供该州为核实最初主张所要求的额外信息。
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White House pushes for speedy review of voter rolls in hunt for noncitizen voters
2026-09-24T10:02:40.482Z / Reuters
Sept 24 (Reuters) – The White House has pushed federal agencies to accelerate their review of at least 47 state voter rolls obtained by the Department of Homeland Security, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, part of an unprecedented effort to find noncitizens among registered voters as midterm elections near.
DHS has surged hundreds of officers from across the US security and immigration apparatuses in recent months to comb the rolls for evidence of voter fraud under its Unlawful Voter Initiative, current and former officials said.
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The September 1 email sent by a DHS official briefs colleagues on the review of voter rolls. It shows how the effort is being directed by the White House — and that agency officials are struggling to meet the goals set out for them. At one point, it notes that a DHS official “has offered to raise with the WH COS if we can’t get forward progress,” a reference to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
The email also reveals that the agency is using a commercial data broker to find sensitive voter information not included in publicly available rolls, which officials and experts warn could lead to citizens being falsely flagged as illegal voters and potentially detained.
The review is the latest attempt by President Donald Trump to vindicate his longstanding assertion that noncitizen voting is widespread in US elections – a claim that has collapsed repeatedly for lack of evidence.
His administration has also urged Republicans to “nationalize” voting in at least 15 places and sought to restrict mail-in balloting, even though the US Constitution gives states, not the federal government, primary authority over election administration.
Critics say the hunt for noncitizen voters is part of a broader strategy to undermine confidence in elections and warn it could disenfranchise legal voters. Multiple studies and audits – including a Reuters analysis in July – have found that the number of unauthorized votes cast in US elections is statistically insignificant.
Reuters found this week that states may have added more than 30,000 noncitizens to their voter rolls since 2000 due to software glitches and clerical errors, but it was unclear how many had cast a ballot, and experts said the numbers were too small relative to the country’s 170 million registered voters to affect elections.
A Reuters review in July found that only 129 people had been charged under the “Voting by Aliens” statute since its 1996 enactment. The Trump administration has charged at least 20 more under the statute in the months since.
The White House said in a statement that all cases of potential noncitizen voting would be pursued. DHS said its investigative efforts are “conducted diligently and professionally in accordance with the law,” providing “an essential guarantee in the authenticity of our election results.”
FALSE POSITIVES
It is unclear how DHS obtained the voter rolls from the 47 states referenced in the September email.
Since returning to office last year, Trump’s administration has demanded unredacted voter rolls from nearly every state. While at least 16 states have agreed to hand over complete rolls with no redactions, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, most have refused to comply.
As a consequence, DHS appears to have relied on public versions of voter rolls with certain personal data removed, such as drivers’ license and Social Security numbers. To fill the gaps, the email shows, DHS has “enriched” the redacted rolls with information bought from Accurint, a private service that collects and sells personal data.
LexisNexis, which owns Accurint, declined to comment.
Federal investigators are matching the augmented voter roll data with records from other government databases — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the US State Department and the Social Security Administration — to identify potential noncitizens, the email showed.
“We have 1,620 cases moving right now that are under investigation,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News on Saturday, “and that list grows every single day.”
But some names in the voter rolls obtained by DHS lacked key details, such as year of birth, making it difficult to match them across various databases, according to the email.
And a US official said the leads sent to agents in recent weeks often included false positives, including citizens who had similar names as immigrants. Another person familiar with the effort said it also mistakenly swept in US citizens born abroad.
DHS had only “some degree of confidence” that the individuals flagged by the review were noncitizens who had “registered to vote and/or voted,” the email said.
Even being flagged “has very real life consequences,” including additional scrutiny during air travel and possible complications for those seeking naturalization, said Kerry Doyle, a former DHS deputy general counsel.
“When there is a flag in the system, it’s very difficult to fix it. It totally upends your life,” Doyle said.
WHITE HOUSE ROLE
At USCIS, which typically processes legal immigration applications, hundreds of fraud detection and national security officers were reassigned to the effort for at least three weeks starting in August, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Officers were given a goal of vetting five names per hour, one of the people said, noting the target was rarely met.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE that usually investigates cross-border crimes such as human trafficking, were also instructed to surge resources to determine whether potential noncitizens could be charged with voting illegally, the US official said.
After a late August call with the White House, the email said, DHS officials held a meeting in which “the ICE team appeared both unaware of what their leadership had committed to and also indicated they weren’t sure they could actually execute, particularly at the volume being sought.”
Some states have said the administration has been unable to back up its assertions of rampant voter fraud.
In Nevada, for example, DHS said in July it had identified nearly 16,000 potential noncitizens on state voter rolls. Pressed by the state for evidence, DHS said the figure was preliminary and it had verified just 185 of those cases, according to the office of Nevada’s secretary of state.
The office said DHS declined to provide additional information requested by the state to verify the initial claims.
Reporting by Kristina Cooke in San Francisco and Peter Eisler in Washington. Additional reporting by Tom Hals. Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage and Deepa Babington