{
  "id": 10770861,
  "title": "‘The Problem Is Infinitesimal’: What the Trump Administration's Intensifying Hunt for Non-Citizen Voters Is Showing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/the-problem-is-infinitesimal-what-the-trump-administrations",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-29T20:01:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Time",
    "slug": "time",
    "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/trump-non-citizen-voting-voter-fraud-claims/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to investigate non-citizen voting in the United States ahead of the midterms. However, the results of these investigations suggest that instances of non-citizens registering or casting ballots are extremely rare. The Administration has been pushing states to turn over their voter rolls and has threatened to withhold funding or prosecute election officials who fail to purge improperly registered non-citizens. A federal whistleblower has alleged that federal personnel may have violated state laws in their pursuit of non-citizen voters. While the Administration claims hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are illegally registered to vote, only a handful have been charged, representing less than 0.00009% of registered voters. Nevada state election officials recently confirmed that all individuals flagged by the Administration as potential non-citizens are U.S. citizens, highlighting the rarity of the issue. The controversy surrounding the Administration's attempts to address non-citizen voting stems from concerns over privacy and the accuracy of the data compiled by the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.",
  "summary": "Far from substantiating the President’s claims of widespread fraud, the results the effort is producing appear to underscore how rare non-citizens registering or casting ballots is.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}