DHS approves plan to verify voter citizenship, monitor mail ballots as Trump push intensifies

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has approved a program to assistance states verify that registered voters are U.S. citizens portion besides monitoring message ballot flows for imaginable signs of elector fraud, advancing a cardinal pillar of President Donald Trump’s predetermination integrity agenda. 

The section approved the program past Thursday, with the inaugural expected to motorboat by the extremity of June, according to a tribunal filing submitted Friday. 

Under the proposal, states would beryllium permitted to taxable their full elector registration rolls to a national migration database to verify citizenship and voting eligibility. State predetermination officials would besides beryllium fixed unafraid entree to citizenship accusation maintained by national agencies, including the Social Security Administration and the State Department. 

DHS besides plans to coordinate with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to show mail-in and absentee ballot flows, place antithetic patterns, observe imaginable fraud, and make investigative leads, according to the filings.

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Oregon residents driblet disconnected ballots adjacent the Multnomah County Elections gathering successful Portland, Ore., connected Nov. 3, 2020. (Ankur Dholakia/AFP via Getty Images)

"DHS contemplates moving with the United States Postal Service (USPS) … to show mail-in and absentee ballot flows, place anomalies that whitethorn suggest elector fraud oregon misuse, and make authorized investigative leads," the filing said. 

The determination follows President Donald Trump’s March 31 enforcement order, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity successful Federal Elections," which directs the instauration of "state citizenship lists," requiring the DHS to place confirmed U.S. citizens property 18 and older and stock that accusation with authorities predetermination officials. 

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A U.S. emblem waves successful beforehand of a USPS bureau successful Bethesda, Maryland, connected Aug. 21, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

It besides stated that the USPS is prohibited from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone who is not officially enrolled connected a state-provided "Mail-In and Absentee Participation List." All outgoing mail-in ballot envelopes indispensable diagnostic an "Official Election Mail" marking and a unsocial tracking barcode to corroborate that lone citizens formed ballots. 

According to a June 5 tribunal filing, states would beryllium allowed to taxable their afloat elector registration lists to a national migration database known arsenic the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. The strategy would comparison elector records with national migration and citizenship data, including records from the Social Security Administration, to assistance corroborate whether voters are eligible.

President Donald Trump appears successful Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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In addition, the program includes a unafraid online strategy that would fto authorities predetermination officials straight cheque citizenship accusation held by national agencies, including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and the State Department.

To support information security, the accusation would enactment wrong each agency’s system, and authorities officials would tally checks done the unafraid portal erstwhile verifying elector eligibility.