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riversedge

(82,631 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:39 PM 23 hrs ago

DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands

Source: the guardian



By Jacob Knutson July 17, 2026


Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database.

Mullin’s threats came just hours after President Donald Trump resurrected debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election during a primetime address as part of his ongoing efforts to undermine U.S. elections before the upcoming midterms.

In its totality, Mullin’s speech amounted to a major escalation in the Trump administration’s attempt to assert federal control over state voter rolls and their election procedures.

Alongside his threats Friday, Mullin claimed that the database in question had identified over 250,000 non-citizens registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

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At no point during the speech did Mullin specify how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained those four states’ voter registration data, though many states offer public versions of their rolls for sale or download...

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

(@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-07-17T16:37:35.734Z


Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaking on July 17, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands (Original Post) riversedge 23 hrs ago OP
STFU Billy Bob Blues Heron 23 hrs ago #1
Good luck. They have zero authority to do that. bearsfootball516 23 hrs ago #2
Mullin is the only member of this administration who is dumber than Trump Fiendish Thingy 23 hrs ago #3
I'll take that bet. Ray Bruns 20 hrs ago #18
Trump is something like 0 for 15 in the courts on this, right? NT mahatmakanejeeves 23 hrs ago #4
No, really, we are charging everyone with being big fat meanies... Moostache 23 hrs ago #5
Mullin needs to read the U.S. constitution DemocracyForever 22 hrs ago #6
Well GCG 22 hrs ago #7
Since when exactly is it a crime??? MLWR 22 hrs ago #8
January 20, 2025 Ray Bruns 20 hrs ago #19
Just taking a page out of the prick's playbook: grumpyduck 22 hrs ago #9
Please try, plumber boy. paleotn 22 hrs ago #10
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #11
LOL...playing Billy bad ass for his Fuhrer. How cute............. Bengus81 22 hrs ago #12
Bring it on, Dumbass. nt City Lights 22 hrs ago #13
He's an uninformed ignoramus having absolutely no qualifications for this or any government or administrative job. ChicagoTeamster 22 hrs ago #14
He means 250,000 people with Spanish sounding surnames. I know there are millions of American citizens in flashman13 21 hrs ago #15
Would be nice to greet the Republican D.C. Senators and Reps with a round of M134 WorseDayEver 21 hrs ago #16
I feel this is TSF's doing. He tells how many immigrants a day to arrest. He tells his jan 6 mother fuckers to bluestarone 20 hrs ago #17
He's never been so relogic 20 hrs ago #20
Bring it on, Marky! lastlib 19 hrs ago #21
Drag his sorry As* into court and serve him a steaming plate of Justice. Ford_Prefect 16 hrs ago #22
Can't we get a court order to stop this shit??? hookaleft 16 hrs ago #23
STFU, you hayseed choad. LudwigPastorius 12 hrs ago #24

Fiendish Thingy

(24,916 posts)
3. Mullin is the only member of this administration who is dumber than Trump
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:44 PM
23 hrs ago

The states will continue to ignore demands for voter rolls.

So far Trump is 0 for 12 in court on this question.

Moostache

(11,385 posts)
5. No, really, we are charging everyone with being big fat meanies...
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:46 PM
23 hrs ago

This entire charade of an administration is an eternal embarrassment.

DemocracyForever

(473 posts)
6. Mullin needs to read the U.S. constitution
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:58 PM
22 hrs ago

The U.S. constitution gives the states the authority to conduct and run the elections.

GCG

(148 posts)
7. Well
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:19 PM
22 hrs ago

A federal judge has already blocked DHS’s updated verification system, citing voter privacy concerns and the risk of wrongfully purging eligible citizens from rolls. That’s load-bearing — DHS is threatening prosecution and funding cutoffs over non-use of a tool that a court has currently enjoined.

grumpyduck

(6,693 posts)
9. Just taking a page out of the prick's playbook:
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:26 PM
22 hrs ago

Threaten people.

And hope they shit their pants.

paleotn

(23,303 posts)
10. Please try, plumber boy.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:43 PM
22 hrs ago

Don't you have a drain to unstopped somewhere, Markwayne yeehaw?

LetMyPeopleVote

(185,040 posts)
11. DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:50 PM
22 hrs ago

This is from Marc Elias' Democracy Docket. The data base that Mullins is trying to use has been enjoined by a federal judge



https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/homeland-security-mullin-threaten-state-election-officials-voter-registration-save/

The database, however, has repeatedly falsely identified eligible voters as noncitizens. It particularly falsely flagged naturalized citizens as ineligible to vote.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., last month barred the DHS from continuing to use the database to surveil and force removals from state voter rolls.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, found that the Trump administration violated several federal laws in refashioning SAVE into a centralized master citizenship database by pooling the private information of millions of Americans — including Social Security records — held by agencies across the federal government into DHS.

Mullin attacked Sooknanan over her ruling, calling her an “activist” judge opposed to secure elections. He also appeared to conflate the SAVE America Act — a massive anti-voting bill pushed by Trump — with the similarly named database.

“Currently, we’re getting pushback from activist judges that are saying that, hold on, the SAVE Act, or the SAVE program — they are trying to put a hold or a stop to,” Mullin said. “Currently, because of the SAVE program, we have a pending appeal because activist judges are saying, what? They don’t want to secure our elections?”

In her order, Sooknanan warned that the Trump administration “haphazardly” threatened “the sacred right to vote” by adopting the expanded SAVE system knowing that it would falsely flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens.

After falsely alleging that foreign governments can hack voting machines and voter registration systems, Mullin announced that DHS, with the Department of Commerce, would soon make new “security enhancements” on voting machines “mandatory” by conditioning state grants on their adoption.

Bengus81

(10,768 posts)
12. LOL...playing Billy bad ass for his Fuhrer. How cute.............
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:53 PM
22 hrs ago

Go ahead and fuck off Mullin........

ChicagoTeamster

(1,612 posts)
14. He's an uninformed ignoramus having absolutely no qualifications for this or any government or administrative job.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:55 PM
22 hrs ago

There is no law they are violating by refusing to violate the Constitutional requirement that states manage their own elections

flashman13

(2,702 posts)
15. He means 250,000 people with Spanish sounding surnames. I know there are millions of American citizens in
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:56 PM
21 hrs ago

those four state with Spanish sounding surnames. I guess Mullin has a secret recipe which can tell the difference between citizen Hernandez and non-citizen Hernandez. Maybe it's AI. We all know how accurate AI results are.

bluestarone

(22,706 posts)
17. I feel this is TSF's doing. He tells how many immigrants a day to arrest. He tells his jan 6 mother fuckers to
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 03:03 PM
20 hrs ago

Stand back and stand by. He tells congress to pass this and that. He tells his DOJ who to prosecute. so this just part of his BULLSHIT. He wants everyone in his administration to speak out when ever he wants them to. (Or he will FIRE THEM)

relogic

(482 posts)
20. He's never been so
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 03:22 PM
20 hrs ago
drunk on such power. Instead of the adolescent bully threatening to prove his manliness in the HOR by punching witnesses, we have the ICE head with fists far larger and pervasive to weld against our communities.

Give these unqualified appointees the weapons of hate, greed and cruelty and you get the administrators of death (RFK, RUBIO, OZ, HOGSBREATH, etc.)

lastlib

(29,012 posts)
21. Bring it on, Marky!
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:15 PM
19 hrs ago

You'll be like that Cornish hen I roasted last night--NOT ONE LEG to stand on! And cooked and skinned!

Ford_Prefect

(8,713 posts)
22. Drag his sorry As* into court and serve him a steaming plate of Justice.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 07:39 PM
16 hrs ago

Mullin couldn't cite ArtI.S4.C1.2 States and the Elections Clause if his life depended on it, let alone interpret it correctly.

He has ZERO authority to collect or manage voter registration. That power falls to the states who determine who is a citizen of each state and qualifies to vote there.

hookaleft

(1,596 posts)
23. Can't we get a court order to stop this shit???
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 07:54 PM
16 hrs ago

They have lost 17 court cases. But they don't GAF.

LudwigPastorius

(15,374 posts)
24. STFU, you hayseed choad.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 11:20 PM
12 hrs ago

Markwayne, I know you are inherently ill-equipped, but shouldn't you be trying to do your job instead of making Trump's dementia fueled revenge fantasies happen?

You are a pathetic factotum for a piss-reeking madman.

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