Trump officials touted a voter fraud bombshell. Their data hasn’t proved it - CNN

Department of Homeland Security officials claimed to have identified 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, but internal documents reveal the data has not been fully vetted. In Nevada, only a tiny fraction of the flagged cases were confirmed as noncitizens, contradicting the department's public narrative.
Why it matters
This highlights a discrepancy between official government claims regarding election integrity and the underlying data, fueling debates over voter fraud allegations.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood before the cameras last month and announced what he cast as a bombshell. “We’ve identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states,” Mullin told reporters. The Department of Homeland Security said it reached that figure by comparing public voter rolls in Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California with federal immigration records. Mullin presented the results as hard evidence supporting President Donald Trump’s long-running, unsubstantiated claims of widespread noncitizen voting. “One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin said. But in Nevada, the numbers thus far do not show what DHS publicly claimed they do. In July, the department said it had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls. However, in a meeting with state election officials last week, DHS acknowledged that it had fully reviewed only a fraction of those cases.
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