White House pushes purge of non-citizens from voter rolls ahead of midterms: report

The White House wants voter rolls in dozens of states cleaned up ahead of the Nov.3 midterms after tens of thousands of non-citizens were found to have been registered and hundreds to have cast ballots — with dozens now being prosecuted.The Department of Homeland Security obtained voter rolls from at least 47 states for review under the Trump administration’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” Reuters reported Thursday, but the process is not going fast enough for some officials.One DHS official, in a Sept.

1 email obtained by the wire service, “offered to raise with the WH COS if we can’t get forward progress,” referring to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.Prosecutors are also charging non-citizens with having illegally voted in past federal elections, including in critical swing states like Pennsylvania.President Trump has repeatedly claimed that his 2020 election loss was a result of voter fraud.After returning to the White House, he pushed an executive action to tighten mail-in balloting rules, which was blocked by the courts, and asked Congress to pass legislation strengthening voter ID requirements — which it has so far failed to do.In a July speech at the White House, Trump also accused China of illegally acquiring voter information on 220 million Americans and engaging in “other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign.”On Wednesday, Reuters reported that as many as 30,000 non-citizens had been added to voter rolls since 2000 as a result of software glitches and errors stemming from the automatic registration of illegal aliens who apply for state driver’s licenses.“The real story here is after decades of the media denying that non-citizens register and vote in our elections, they are finally being forced to admit after a flurry of recent arrests nationwide that it does happen,” said White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis.“Democrats must stop refusing to pass the SAVE America Act—common...