Warner and Kaine call for accountability over alleged false voter-portal attestations
Mark WarnerU.S. senator from Virginia, in a joint statement with Senator Tim Kaine
Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine condemned the reported direction to DHS personnel to falsely identify themselves as Virginia voters to access registration records. They said officials who violated the law should be held accountable and pledged to protect voter information and prevent wrongful removals from voter rolls.
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Did DHS direct officers to misrepresent themselves to search state voter records?
A September 2026 whistleblower disclosure alleges that personnel working on DHS's Unlawful Voter Initiative were directed to search state voter portals even where access requires the user to be the voter or an authorized representative. The published packet includes a list of state sites, an attestation example, and a training excerpt saying officers could search the sites. The excerpt does not explicitly instruct officers to make false attestations. Senators Alex Padilla and Chuck Schumer have called for an investigation and an immediate halt to the activity. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin denied that officers were given the alleged directive. The dispute is whether DHS directed officers to misrepresent their authority to obtain protected voter records.
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Warner and Kaine responded jointly to a report that DHS personnel had been told to falsely identify themselves as Virginia voters to access voter-registration information. The senators called for accountability for officials who violated the law and pledged to protect voter information and prevent wrongful removals from voter rolls.
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Warner and Kaine responded jointly to a report that DHS personnel had been told to falsely identify themselves as Virginia voters to access voter-registration information.
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The senators called for accountability for officials who violated the law and pledged to protect voter information and prevent wrongful removals from voter rolls.
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Warner and Kaine condemn the reported false voter-portal attestations and call for accountability. Their qualification about which officials violated the law preserves uncertainty about the allegations rather than support for the conduct.
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Mullin denies directive to impersonate voters
“That's absolutely not the directive that we put out there, and it's not even close to what we're doing.”Read statement
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