U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used more than 100 million voter-registration records in investigations into alleged noncitizen voting. Records obtained by Democracy Forward also show the data was entered into Palantir’s analytical system.
The information appears in 169 pages of internal ICE documents obtained by Democracy Forward through a Freedom of Information Act request. According to the records, 50.6 million records came from the Justice Department, including unredacted voter lists provided by more than a dozen Republican-led states. Another 48.4 million records were collected by Heather Honey, a senior adviser to ICE and Homeland Security leaders. Those records included public voter lists from California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
ICE compared the rolls with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records and generated more than 1,500 investigative leads for distribution to regional offices. The agency also entered voter records into ELITE, a Palantir tool used to identify and prioritize people who meet deportation criteria. Democracy Docket separately reported that the documents showed voter data being shared with Palantir.
Democracy Forward president Skye Perryman said the disclosures raised concerns and showed an effort by the executive branch to undermine elections. The documents say ICE began investigating suspected noncitizen voting and alleged election irregularities. ICE leadership said it had no plans to deploy agents or officers at polling places for the November 3 general election.