The New York Times' Wednesday reporting on a US Department of Homeland Security "blitz to find elusive voter fraud" by noncitizens is heightening fears that President Donald Trump will try to meddle in the country's midterm elections, which are just over two months away. The newspaper revealed that as part of a "hunt for noncitizens…
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DOJ's Civil Rights Division, retasked to hunt voter fraud, is still arguing over whose rights it protects
“They didn't rename the sign, they just switched what's behind the counter — same "Civil Rights Division," except now the civil right they're protecting is yours to not have your ballot count. That's the con: hundreds of agents on the payroll going through voter rolls for fraud a federal lawsuit already calls nearly nonexistent, while the boss is busy arguing with Harvard about what her own office is even for. You can't afford your fan belt but they found the budget for that — figure out who that program actually protects.”
“Look, nobody's "hunting voters," that's a loaded word, somebody fed you that word. This is election integrity, it's a data-integrity exercise, states share rolls with the federal government all the time, that's called federalism — did I say hundreds of agents? I meant a small, dedicated, cross-agency team. And the Harvard thing, that's not a job dispute, that's the Division doing two things at once, which is called multitasking, which — okay, that one I don't love either.”
The receipts
Federal election monitors traditionally focused on protecting voter rights are tapped to tackle fraud.
· 'Democracy Is Under Attack': Civil Rights Lawsuit Aims to Block Trump Assault on Mail-In Voting from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
· Leader of DOJ’s Civil Rights Unit Spars With Harvard, the Left and Her Colleagues from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
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