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As the Trump administration has carried out a nonstop effort to undermine the midterm elections this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appears to have looked into whether it could use a Palantir-supported tool to track people it believes have voted illegally.

The documents also show how Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—one of ICE’s two major components—is spearheading the effort to uncover voter fraud, with its Innovation Lab (known internally as iLab) developing tools for agents. www.wired.com/story/ice-em...

ICE, it seems, wants to build “a system that is going to get good at determining how to find people to investigate and potentially bring action against,” Chinmayi Sharma, an associate professor at Fordham Law School who has closely tracked the ELITE tool, tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/ice-em...

The claim that noncitizens are voting in numbers sufficient to sway the outcomes of US elections has been a central narrative pushed by the Trump administration in the run up to next month’s midterms. All available evidence shows that noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare.