{
  "id": 7420451,
  "title": "DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/dhs-officers-raise-concerns-over-potentially-illegal-voter-searches",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T22:55:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/dhs-voter-data-whistleblower"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday . DHS…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "title": "Trump DHS whistleblower alleges workers lied to access state voter data",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/trump-dhs-whistleblower-alleges-workers-lied-to-access-state-voter",
        "published": "2026-09-14T21:23:21.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate US citizens, whistleblower alleges",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/dhs-voter-probe-may-break-state-laws-and-wrongly-implicate-us",
        "published": "2026-09-14T22:39:09.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}