Over 200 noncitizens and foreign nationals have been prosecuted, arrested, or convicted for voting illegally in the United States — the largest enforcement action of its kind in American history. That number came from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security this week.
That was action number one. There were fourteen more. The Trump administration rolled out 15 executive actions to secure Tuesday's election.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth established a one-day military voting stand-down in October for every federal election year going forward, giving service members dedicated time to cast their ballots. The War Department also closed absentee ballot loopholes that had allowed overseas applicants to exploit gaps in identity verification.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz issued nursing home voting protections — guidance designed to prevent the kind of ballot harvesting operations that have plagued elder-care facilities for years. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a "Dear Colleague" letter restricting partisan NGO access to student data, cutting off one of the quieter pipelines political operatives used to target young voters.
Attorney General Todd Blanche opened an inquiry into Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's nonprofit funding operations and their role in requesting voter information from state agencies. The DOJ also went after state motor vehicle data that was used in 2020 get-out-the-vote drives, and issued warning letters to state election officials regarding potential federal law violations.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's Census Bureau proposed a full overhaul of the 2030 Census to produce accurate citizen counts — a direct response to the 2020 Census errors that handed Democrats five erroneous House seats. Five seats. Based on a miscount.
CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — ceased its censorship of political speech and refocused entirely on election security, then issued a historic report exposing electronic voting system vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made DOJ referrals on QR code and barcode voting system weaknesses that had gone unaddressed for years.
USCIS analyzed voter files and identified tens of thousands of suspected foreigners who had cast ballots in prior elections. China alone vacuumed up 220 million American voter files — a national security breach that the previous administration treated as a footnote. President Trump made the USCIS SAVE system available cost-free to state and local officials, and the result was immediate: 500,000 dead people scrubbed from voter rolls.
FEMA conditioned over a billion dollars in grant money on election security measures, including manual audits and ballot verification. Federal money, tied to actual accountability.
The criticism writes itself before it arrives. "Voter suppression" — the phrase Democrats reach for every time someone suggests that only citizens should vote, that dead people should not remain on voter rolls, and that foreign governments should not have access to 220 million American voter files. The people making that argument are the same people who spent four years insisting the 2020 election was the most secure in history while fighting every attempt to verify it.
Fifteen completed executive actions across DOJ, DHS, FEMA, CISA, the War Department, HHS, Education, Commerce, and USCIS. The kind of interagency coordination Washington usually reserves for things it actually cares about.
The last administration had four years to clean up voter rolls, secure voting systems, and stop foreign intelligence services from harvesting American voter data. They spent that time calling election security concerns a conspiracy theory.
