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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 revelation is found in documents obtained through a FOIA request and published this week by Democracy Forward, a legal advocacy group. The documents reveal that DHS officials have investigated over 150 nonprofit groups in search of evidence they’re helping noncitizens register to vote.

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...

WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests. Read it here: www.wired.com/story/ice-em...