What to know about the Trump administration's claim that 250K non-citizens are registered to vote in 4 states
The Trump administration claims that 250,000 non-citizens are registered to vote across four states, though they have provided little evidence to support this figure. Experts warn that the administration's reliance on commercial databases likely leads to significant false positives and mischaracterizations of voter eligibility.
Why it matters
This report highlights a contentious debate regarding election integrity and the accuracy of federal claims about voter rolls in the United States.
Washington — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday continued to amplify President Trump's assertion that more than a quarter of a million noncitizens were registered to vote in four states, though the administration has yet to provide details of how it arrived at that figure.In a news conference following Mr. Trump's address to the nation Thursday that focused on election security, Mullin said the alleged 250,000 noncitizens that it believes were registered to vote were in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada. Those four states have not complied with the Trump administration's demands to provide voter data to the federal government. In 23 states that are working with the Trump administration and ran their voter records through an overhauled centralized federal database, Mullin said an additional 28,000 noncitizens were registered to vote.But CBS News found that the claims from Mr.
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