Trump administration promote program to check voter eligibility. Critics fear a midterm purge

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:06 AM EDT, May 17, 2026


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Even as Democratic officials fight the effort in court, the Trump administration has run millions of voter registrations through government databases to determine their eligibility in a process that critics worry could end up purging valid voters from the rolls before the November elections.

At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and tens of thousands of those have been flagged as potential noncitizens or people who have died. Some states allow only a month for people to prove their eligibility and others suspend it immediately.

The scanning of state voter rolls at the national level is part of a broader effort by Republican President Donald Trump to federalize certain election functions and promote his messaging that elections are marred by noncitizen voting, even though instances of that are rare. Voting and civil rights advocates say the DHS system is error-prone and can mistakenly flag people who are eligible to vote.

“If a voter is wrongly removed, by the time they learn about it and correct it, they may miss their opportunity to vote in that election,” said Freda Levenson, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. The group is challenging an Ohio law requiring monthly checks with the DHS system.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-voter-eligibility-purge-noncitizens-disenfranchised-8f78773f583e4404136707c62acc648a

[COL Mustard]

1. I wonder how many of his own base will be caught up in this.

That's the irony. Where I live, the fact that I voted is public record. Who I voted for is not.

[Nittersing]

2. Of course this is a midterm purge

It's the only way they can win.

And I'm scared they will be successful.

[Walleye]

3. Most of us have been voting for decades and in the same polling place

Don’t accuse me of lying without proof dammit

[slightlv]

7. I've been voting for years and years...

but if only my polling place could be the same! I've been gerrymandered so often, I have no idea from time to time where I'll be voting next! It's infuriating. Used to be I could walk across the street, to the church basement, to vote. Now I have to drive 20 minutes to get to another church basement far from where I live. We are democrats. I have a feeling our neighborhood looks like a crooked zipper!

[Whip-poor-will]

4. A huge no

That's not the presidential purview

How about concentrating on finishing the Iran fuck up

Then a showing of the epstein trump party tapes

Then trump in a jail cell as the common felon that he is along with being a rapist

[Bayard]

5. I'm more than worried about it,

I'm sure of it. All part of the Big Beautiful Plan. Looks like a blantant violation of the Constitution that says states alone control voting.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. He knows he's going to lose big time.