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Virginia AG challenges Trump administration voter probe

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones stepped into a national political spotlight on the eve of early voting for the next Congress by challenging President Donald Trump's administration for an undercover probe of state voter rolls that he said may be illegal.

Sources (1)+2 copies· Sep 20, 9:58 PM to Sep 22, 1:22 PM

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DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate U.S. citizens, whistleblower allegesNEW YORK — A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Monday. The Department of Homeland Security probe
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