New Actor: Jay Jones alleges DHS violated state election law

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones warned that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated multiple Virginia election laws. In a letter to Secretary Markwayne Mullin, he said DHS employees misrepresented themselves to access state voter lookup tools in a search for noncitizen voters. He demanded written confirmation on whether DHS directed anyone to access Virginians’ voter information without the voter’s permission and asked Mullin to preserve access logs, correspondence and training materials.

The letter follows a whistleblower report released Monday that included transcripts of a late‑August DHS training for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staff. Staff were pulled off other work, given less than two hours of training, and told to run DHS-provided lists through state voter registration systems, with a target of 40 people per day, about 12 minutes each, and to create federal records for anyone deemed ineligible. Virginia limits its voter lookup tools to people who attest under penalty of law that they are checking their own records, and state law does not permit disclosure of protected voter information to the federal government without a court order.

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