Markwayne Mullin reiterated the president’s false claims about voting security while escalating the administration’s legally questionable attempts to control state elections.
Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, repeated several false claims made by President Trump in a prime-time speech Thursday about the security of U.S. elections.
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.
Voting-rights activists said the changes are a blatant attempt by G.O.P. leaders to make it harder for Black voters and students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast ballots this fall.
President Trump claimed without evidence on Thursday that massive numbers of noncitizens are registered in four states: California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
A bitter struggle between Maricopa County’s Republican-dominated Board of Supervisors and a Trump-allied official over control of elections has ramifications far beyond Greater Phoenix.
Letters from Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Justice Department’s civil rights division, to all 50 states and the District of Columbia threatened prosecution of top election officials if votes by noncitizens were counted in upcoming elections.
The expansion of an investigation into Fulton County’s election office reflects President Trump’s desire to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election in Georgia was rigged.
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