Elections
New civil-rights lawsuit filed; plaintiffs seek to end initiativeDefend the eligibility check against an eligibility lawsuit
Another challenge to the Unlawful Voter Initiative asks why the government's own records keep sending citizens back to the starting line.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / DHS / USCIS
- Status
- New civil-rights lawsuit filed; plaintiffs seek to end initiative
- Due
- New lawsuit pending; earlier nine-state order concerns period through November 3
- Paying for it
- Federal investigators, litigating groups and affected election communities
ACTIVITY
UpdatedUSCIS assigned minimally trained employees to the Unlawful Voter Initiative.
FORTY a day, who picked Forty? Good Number, or fits the Chart?? Perfect Number every day, information keeps changing underneath..... suspicious Counting!
Investigators were told to hide who they were when seeking voter records.
Federal and state files didn't always match. The quota stayed at forty names a day.
Get the Names RIGHT!
Some of the names belonged to citizens. Legal now has that problem too.
Citizen, FIX THE FILE! I asked Voter-Checking, not Citizen-Removing, understand the Difference!
I want the list of things wrong with the List. One list!
The court's order and its temporary delay have separate calendar entries.
The compliance note cannot be replaced with a statement that the project remains important.
Everybody tells me Data, Data, then the Data comes back and needs more Data. I could have had a very nice breakfast in the time they spend explaining a spreadsheet. Put the mistakes in RED, I can find red, tremendous color for finding a problem.
I'm now checking the people who checked the checking. Add another box.
The additional box has no effect on the injunction.
I can see that. It's a box, not an Appeal. Why am I explaining your system to YOU?
A separate complaint challenges the initiative itself and its underlying data.
I like the ceremony, they become Citizens, beautiful ceremony. Then a computer says wait a minute. Who is running the ceremony computer??
A record can describe an earlier immigration status.
The new allegations are not a new court order.
I want Current. That's why we bought computers, I assume, otherwise a very nice cabinet would have done it. Wood, brass handles, no password resets. Now we have all this Electronic and the person has moved on with their life before the machine does.
The data review should precede the doorstep visit.
Yes. My preferred order is know, THEN knock. Put that in the training.
PUBLIC RECORD
A whistleblower alleged that DHS employees were instructed to misrepresent themselves to access state voter databases and use potentially unreliable information to investigate up to 40 people daily. DHS defended the initiative as lawful. AP reported October 22 that Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the Unlawful Voter Initiative halted in nine states through November 3, citing unreliable data and intimidation affecting voter-assistance work. Her October 21 ruling was held until October 23 to allow an appeal. DHS said it targets noncitizens who vote and does not plan to investigate people it believes are citizens. The report did not establish an appellate outcome. October 29 update: On October 28, OCA organizations and Common Cause filed a separate California federal lawsuit against DHS and USCIS, represented by civil-rights groups. Plaintiffs allege that flawed records and investigation methods unlawfully target naturalized citizens. They seek to stop the Unlawful Voter Initiative and federal pressure to reject valid ballots, alleging civil-rights, privacy and administrative-law violations. These are claims in a complaint, not new judicial findings. Reuters reported that DHS did not immediately respond; its earlier defense of the initiative remains recorded above.
Associated Press · 2026-09-15 ↗
Associated Press · Nine-state order · 2026-10-22 ↗