DHS hunts noncitizen voters, DOJ asks courts to unfreeze the list, State offers the passports.

…(cont) A week after that, on September 15, a whistleblower said the DHS search itself might violate state law. Employees were handed the files of people already flagged as potential "unlawful voters" and told to run those names against state voter databases — the kind of cross-referencing several states reserve for their own election officials, not federal agents on loan.

Two weeks later, on September 29, the State Department said it is assessing whether to share passport records with state and local officials so they can check voter citizenship. Passport files exist to confirm someone can travel, not to reconcile a poll book. The State Department does not run elections. It is now weighing whether to help build the list that decides who does.

Four entries, one drawer, twenty-seven days: DHS runs the search, DOJ asks the Supreme Court to free the database that search feeds, State offers the records that database wants. Each step reads defensible in isolation — a fraud inquiry, an appeal, a records review. Placed on the calendar in order, they add up to one pipeline built in installments, three different letterheads pointed at one destination: state voter rolls, checked against federal files, faster than any statehouse voted to allow.

The whistleblower's warning from September 15 has not been answered. Whether a federal search built on names already flagged as potential "unlawful voters" breaks the state laws it crosses is a question still sitting somewhere, unresolved, while the next agency signs on anyway. That is the org chart doing what an org chart does when three boxes report the same finding without ever checking with each other — except this time the boxes are federal agencies, the finding is a citizenship count, and the deadline is the November ballot.