DHS secretary doubles down on Trump’s baseless 2020 election claims
Summary
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended claims made by President Donald Trump that the 2020 US election had serious problems, including voter fraud by noncitizens and insecure voting machines. Election experts and state officials have disputed these claims, saying there is no strong evidence and that voting systems remain secure.Key Facts
- DHS Secretary Mullin repeated President Trump’s claims about noncitizen voter registrations in several states.
- Mullin said 250,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada, but experts say the data and methods behind this number are unclear.
- State officials, like Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Al Schmidt, said noncitizen voting is very rare and voters must prove their identity when voting.
- Mullin claimed 28,000 noncitizens were found on voter rolls in 23 states working with DHS’s verification program.
- Experts say the number of suspected noncitizen registrations is very small compared to the total number of voters.
- Mullin repeated unsupported claims that voting machines are unsafe and could be hacked by foreign adversaries.
- Cybersecurity experts say voting machines in the US are tested regularly and are not connected to the internet.
- Claims linking Venezuela’s election technology to problems in the US election are part of an unproven conspiracy theory.
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