How Trump is moving to control U.S. elections, one state at a time

Reuters ^ | April 27, 20265:00 AM CDT | Ned Parker, Peter Eisler

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In January, the Franklin County Board of Elections in Ohio received a surprising call.

The man on the line said he was an agent at the Department of Homeland Security – and he needed immediate access to voter records. Franklin County has a large population of Democrats and has long been a focal point of Republican skepticism about urban voting centers in Ohio.

In the weeks that followed, the requests multiplied. According to emails reviewed by Reuters, the agent asked for voter registration forms and voting histories for dozens of voters – records that include driver's license numbers and other confidential data. He pressed for information about local voter‑registration groups, describing the request as an “investigation” and “very time sensitive.” But he offered no explanation for what prompted his probe or where it was headed.

The requests were a bolt from the blue for Franklin County election officials. Under the U.S. Constitution, elections – even for national offices such as the presidency – are run by states, not the federal government. Adding to the confusion, DHS’s mission has traditionally focused largely on counterterrorism, border security and immigration enforcement.

“We’d never received a call from Homeland Security before, so that was unusual,” said Antone White, the county’s elections director. He said he complied, but still does not know the purpose of the inquiry. DHS declined to comment on the Ohio operation, but said its agents are “actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found.”

The U.S. attorney’s office for southern Ohio declined to comment on whether any federal investigation was underway.

The Ohio episode is part of a larger pattern Reuters found in at least eight states: a wider-than-known federal push into the machinery and conduct of U.S. elections, which since the founding of the republic in...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: alreuters; electionfraud; fakenews; nedparker; petereisler; saveamericaact; stolenelections; stopthesteal; tds; voterfraud

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Reuters sounds skeert.

[WashingtonSource]

Reuters is anti-American agitprop for leftists and Communists.

[BradyLS]

How the legacy lame-stream media turns a blind eye to the previous machinations of the Demonrats.

[Singermom]

He has to do it ALL alone. Not even our side lends a hand to help. Hardly worth voting for these backstabbers.

[equaviator]

If 2020 doesn’t give probable cause then what does?

[no-to-illegals]

Voting Fraud wouldn’t be rampant IF Voting Rolls were under constant Honest scrutiny …….

[ComputerGuy]

More and more of us have become aware of the rampant cheating that is going on.
More and more people are losing faith in the ballot-box method of making changes in government.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Ned Parker and Peter Eisler need to go back to school. Try reading the Reynolds v. Simms decision (or the earlier decision in Baker v. Carr), which proclaimed Federal Court jurisdiction over state apportionment of districts for representation in state legislatures. Even though the issue concerned how a state drew district lines that determined which state legislators were elected, Federal Constitutional rights were implicated. Just because a federal agency was investigating individuals' voter registrations does not change the state's responsibility for administering elections. Likewise, the fact that states and state legislatures control "time, place, and manner" issues of election administration does not mean that the Federal Constitution does not apply to election administration. The possibility/likelihood that sloppy administration has allowed non-citizens to vote in state and federal elections runs smack into Reynolds v. Simms' most famous dictum - the "one man-one vote" standard. Though it was applied to redistricting (holding that there cannot be huge disparities between the apportionment of districts - i.e., one legislative seat cannot represent 400,000 constituents when another legislative seat in the same body represents 800,000), I have been waiting to see a case that alleges dilution of votes due to registration of non-citizens is creating weighting disparities between voters. That may be what we are looking at in these investigations. So the question could be put before SCOTUS: if one man, one vote is a standard for apportioning districts, what should be the standard for overall weighting of votes - shouldn't it also be one man-one vote as an objective? And if that is true, and I am certain that it is, to avoid the dilution of votes cast by citizens, shouldn't local and state election officials be held to much higher standards of administration in order to screen out non-citizen voters?

[Nateman]

..How Trump is moving to control U.S. elections, one state at a time

The dirty villain! How does he expect the Democrats to steal elections if he keeps putting pressure on them to make them honest and fair! /s

[Nateman]

...Not even our side lends a hand to help. Hardly worth voting for these backstabbers...

80% support from Republicans and that is still not enough to get the SAVE act passed. I don't know what dirty deals are going on behind the scenes to kill this bill but with our Federal government looting us for Trillions of dollars you can be sure it is the bad guys trying to keep the gravy train rolling.

[spincaster]

It’s about time dead people are stopped from voting.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[No name given]

Absolutely right.

[Chickensoup]

Control?

Stop the cheating!

[equaviator]

That would be election fraud. The deceased can’t commit or attempt to commit voter fraud because they’re dead.

[mewzilla]

The authors are interesting guys...

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/ned-parker

And get a load of this one from last year...

https://events.syracuse.edu/event/stories-that-shape-democracy-inside-national-political-reporting-with-reuters

From the link...

“Reuters journalists Peter Eisler and Ned Parker G’98, winners of the 2025 Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, will discuss their award-winning series, “The Politics of Menace”—a gripping investigation into the campaign of threats and intimidation against President Donald Trump’s political foes before the 2024 presidential election. Hear directly from the journalists behind the headlines as they discuss their work and the state of political journalism. Read their prize winning work....”

Political journalism, huh?

Reads like propaganda to me.

[FLT-bird]

If by “control” Rooters means looking to see if states are complying with the 1994 Voter Registration Act which requires states to keep their voter rolls clean, then yes, that would be “control”.

Here’s a tip Rooters. No. States are obviously not keeping their voter rolls clean and are in breach of federal law.

[Elsie]

The man on the line said he was an agent at the Department of Homeland Security

Well... WAS he??!!??

[Elsie]

The U.S. attorney’s office for southern Ohio declined to comment on whether any federal investigation was underway.

Oh, I see...

[existentially_kuffer]

Reuters is a foreign influencer!