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ICE has your voter file WTF AMERICA ICE has your voter file October 16, 2026 Welcome to WTF America. 99 million 99 million Voter records that ICE's investi...

ICE has your voter file WTF AMERICA ICE has your voter file October 16, 2026 Welcome to WTF America. 99 million 99 million Voter records that ICE's investigative arm says it has ingested, in a June 1 internal report. 154 million people voted in 2024. A June 1, 2026 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) report, in 166 pages of ICE records released October 7 by Democracy Forward after a FOIA lawsuit, says investigators had ingested 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset and another 48.4 million records that Heather Honey, senior counselor to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, obtained through 'independent sources of information' (50.6 + 48.4 = 99.0 million; the sets may overlap, so 99 million is records ingested, not unique voters). The census reports 154 million people voted in the 2024 election. Sources: CNN Oct 7; States Newsroom Oct 7; Democracy Forward press release Oct 7. Where the 99 million came from Where the 99 million came from — 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset — 48.4 million from 'independent sources of information' the report does not name — Plus 26,235 USCIS-derived records; the sets may overlap, so 99 million is records ingested, not unique voters HSI June 1 report: 50.6 million records ingested from a DOJ dataset; 48.4 million obtained by Heather Honey through 'independent sources of information'; Democracy Forward also counts 26,235 records derived from USCIS. CNN: the DOJ records may include unredacted voter lists voluntarily handed over by more than a dozen Republican-led states; the independent data may include public voter lists from California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada that DHS purchased. Commentary (Restoring Democracy Substack) warns the two sets should not simply be added as unique voters. Sources: CNN Oct 7; Democracy Forward Oct 7; Democracy Docket Oct 7. Who assembled it Who assembled it — Homeland Security Investigations: ICE's criminal investigative arm, a 'phased national initiative' of voter-roll acquisition, data analysis, leads and field investigations — Heather Honey: senior counselor to the DHS Secretary; her 2020 Pennsylvania analysis was cited by President Trump on January 6, 2021 — Weekly reports to ICE leadership tracked primaries and the projects' progress CNN: HSI described the undertaking as 'a phased national initiative involving voter-roll acquisition, data analysis, investigative leads and field investigations', with weekly reports summarizing progress and primary elections tracked. NBC News (Aug 2025): Heather Honey, a Pennsylvania activist whose 2020 research misrepresented incomplete state voter data to claim Pennsylvania had more votes than voters, a falsehood Trump echoed on January 6, 2021, was appointed DHS deputy assistant secretary for election integrity; Democracy Forward describes her now as senior advisor to the ICE Director and senior counselor to the DHS Secretary. Sources: CNN Oct 7; NBC News Aug 27, 2025; Democracy Forward Oct 7; picture States Newsroom (Getty). The map nobody drew The map nobody drew Dec 2025: DHS links the SAVE citizenship system to Social Security records and opens bulk voter-roll checks (NPR) Jun 2026: a federal judge halts expanded SAVE as a privacy-law violation; the D.C. Circuit agrees in September (Washington Times) Jun 1, 2026: HSI's report counts 99 million voter records ingested; undercover agents 'may' target nonprofits (CNN, Democracy Docket) Jul 2026: six states' voter data 'pending Palantir entry into ELITE', ICE's deportation-targeting tool (Democracy Docket) Sep 25, 2026: the Supreme Court revives SAVE, 6-3, while the case continues (NPR, CNN) Oct 14-15, 2026: DOJ gives California 48 hours, then sues over 20,000 'likely noncitizens' already mailed ballots (CNN, Daily Caller) Timeline, each entry sourced: NPR Dec 10, 2025 and Sep 25, 2026 (SAVE linked to SSA, bulk queries, states encouraged to upload entire rolls; tens of millions of records run through SAVE before a judge blocked it in June); Washington Times Sep 8 (district court June ruling, D.C. Circuit upheld, DHS petition to SCOTUS); CNN Oct 7 and Democracy Docket (HSI June 1 report: 50.6M + 48.4M records; undercover agents considered); Democracy Docket (July report: data from Missouri, Michigan, New Mexico, Connecticut, Georgia and Kentucky 'are pending Palantir entry into ELITE'; Palantir to CNN: 'Voter roll data has never been integrated into ELITE'); NPR/CNN Sep 25 (Supreme Court lifts the block, three liberal justices dissent); CNN Oct 14 (DOJ letters giving Los Angeles and California 48 hours); Daily Caller Oct 15 (DOJ 16-page complaint: over 20,000 likely noncitizens on California rolls). CNN: DOJ has sued 30 other states to force them to share unredacted rolls. Find your state: who gave DOJ their rolls Find your state: who gave DOJ their rolls — HSI priority states: Texas, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Ohio — DHS told the Supreme Court SAVE verified