{"id":57526,"date":"2026-10-29T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57526"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:18:01","slug":"trump-expands-hunt-for-noncitizen-voters-with-broad-subpoena-campaign-before-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-expands-hunt-for-noncitizen-voters-with-broad-subpoena-campaign-before-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expands hunt for noncitizen voters with broad subpoena campaign before midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 The Trump administration has issued more than 100 subpoenas demanding records on tens of thousands of voters in at least 13 states, part of an escalating effort ahead of next week\u2019s midterm elections to uncover evidence of unlawful voting by people who aren\u2019t US citizens.<\/p>\n

Most of the subpoenas documented by Reuters were issued to state and local election officials in the past three months, though some date to the start of the year. Many were previously unreported, revealing a federal effort \u200bto identify potential noncitizen voters that is broader than publicly known. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in US federal elections. Legal experts say the records could be used to contest results in close midterm races, despite scant evidence that voting by noncitizens is widespread.<\/p>\n

Reuters identified the subpoenas through public-records requests and interviews with local and state officials. Many \u200cwere issued in Democratic strongholds, including Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other California cities. But they also reach into Republican-leaning states with competitive races, including Texas, Kansas and Georgia.<\/p>\n

At least 49 of the subpoenas were issued under the authority of grand juries, indicating they are tied to criminal investigations and making them generally harder to challenge in court than administrative subpoenas issued directly by federal agencies.<\/p>\n

The White House says noncitizen voting is a significant problem that warrants the sweeping federal effort to identify and prosecute such cases, including through the deployment of hundreds of federal law enforcement agents. It has vowed to keep the effort a top priority. \u201cThe Trump administration is sending a clear message that anyone who illegally votes in our elections will be held accountable,\u201d White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement to Reuters. \u201cOnly Americans should be electing America\u2019s leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Multiple studies and a Reuters analysis have found that noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare.
\nThe subpoenas are one piece of an expansive campaign targeting noncitizen voting. Armed Homeland Security agents have questioned residents \u200bin several states about their immigration status and voting, while the Justice Department has sued 30 states that refused to provide voter rolls containing sensitive personal information such as driver\u2019s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. A federal judge largely halted Homeland Security\u2019s field operations in nine states on October 21, and courts have ruled against the Justice Department in every voter-roll case so far. Many \u200bof those cases remain under appeal.<\/p>\n

The subpoenas issued by the Justice Department and Homeland Security offer another way to obtain the same voter information, which legal experts say could figure in disputes over midterm election results. Elections are administered primarily by the states, with the federal government playing a limited role. Under most \u2060state laws, only losing candidates or voters can challenge election results, but the Justice Department could still take legal action to delay or block certification of winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 The Trump administration has issued more than 100 subpoenas demanding records on tens of thousands of voters in at least 13 states, part of an escalating effort ahead of next week\u2019s midterm elections to uncover evidence of unlawful voting by people who aren\u2019t US citizens. Most of the subpoenas documented by Reuters were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57528,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526\/revisions\/57528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}