Never before has the federal government been more focused on finding evidence of mass noncitizen voting. What it’s found is exponentially more modest.
Under the orders of President Donald Trump, the administration has launched a far-reaching effort to find evidence that foreigners are tainting elections. Top officials have claimed that they believe hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are on voter rolls, and they’ve threatened election officials with prosecution for not doing enough to stamp out the supposed problem. But those figures have narrowed significantly under additional scrutiny, and much smaller still is the number of people the administration has charged criminally for noncitizen voting.
