Mullin Says More Than 300,000 Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls – The Epoch Times

Voters fill out their ballots on the final day of advance voting – The Epoch Times

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that the total number of noncitizens on voter rolls nationwide could exceed 300,000, up by 50,000 from an earlier estimate.

In July, Mullin said that federal officials found 250,000 non-Americans were registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.

“We can get access to the information. And that’s how we found the 250,000. That number is actually pushed north of 300,000,” Mullin told Newsmax in an interview released on Oct. 30.

“We can tell if they’re registered to vote, if they’re legally in this country or not,” he said, adding that the Department of Homeland Security is working with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine whether those noncitizens are illegal immigrants or not.

More information will be provided after ballots are cast, the secretary said, adding that he cannot at this time determine whether they voted in the Nov. 3 midterm election. In the interview, he did not say where the additional 100,000 possible noncitizens were found.

“I can’t say that they voted or not. We’re still going through that,” Mullin told the outlet, while he announced that more than 1,600 investigations are ongoing with 100 convictions to date.

His remarks came as an appeals court panel ruled against the DOJ’s request to have California officials set aside 20,000 ballots based on indications that they were potentially cast by noncitizens, representing another legal setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to root out what it says is voter fraud ahead of the midterms.

Earlier in October, a district court denied a request to block the counting of those ballots, and that denial was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Oct. 31. Further, the appeals court rejected an emergency request submitted by the DOJ to intervene in tallying the vote.

“As the district court found—and we discern no clear error—there is no feasible way to identify and segregate the ballots of specific individuals without potentially catastrophic effects on the entire system,” the panel wrote.

Aside from the push in California, the Trump administration has made efforts to bolster election-related security in other states, including Alaska and Washington.

In Alaska, the administration sent subpoenas in relation to controversy that erupted following a New York Times report alleging that Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign sought to recruit a third-party candidate with the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska).

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Alaska Department of Public Safety both confirmed an open investigation into the Peltola allegations. Meanwhile, Peltola, a former House lawmaker, has denied that she knows anything about the claims and said they are distractions from Sullivan’s record.

President Donald Trump last week said Peltola should face prosecution, while Attorney General Todd Blanche accused her campaign of cheating.

The DOJ said it also provided a list of about 400 alleged noncitizen voters to officials in Washington state. In response, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said on Oct. 29 that his state has no capacity to determine whether individuals are American citizens when they register to vote.

Republicans currently hold small majorities in both the House and Senate.