ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.
According to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division are developing a system to investigate voter fraud, using a Palantir-supported tool called ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement).
The system is designed to analyze DOJ voting rolls and US Citizenship and Immigration Services data, with criminal histories excluded for now. HSI's Innovation Lab is working on the tool. However, the documents do not indicate that ELITE has been integrated with voter roll data and the existence of the system was not mentioned in earlier emails.
The DHS has been investigating over 150 nonprofit groups for aiding noncitizens in registering to vote.
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