New Facts: DHS alleges 250,000 noncitizens on rolls

Homeland Security said its review found more than 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent letters giving the states two weeks to respond and warned officials could face prison if they do not secure their elections.

The letters say DHS used public voter lists, yet also say about 118,000 suspected matches were tied to Social Security numbers. Public rolls do not include those numbers, and the four states say they did not share rolls with Social Security data. Officials in California, Nevada and Pennsylvania demanded the methodology and asked how DHS obtained any Social Security numbers, and Mullin’s letter put Pennsylvania’s count at up to 14,576.

Nevada and Pennsylvania say they have not received the underlying names to verify the counts. New Jersey separately found a Motor Vehicle Commission error that registered about 6,600 self-identified noncitizens, and about 400 of them voted between 2023 and 2024. That is far below the 35,000 the federal claim assigned to New Jersey.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources