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ICE to Award $5 Million Contract for National Voter Database

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ICE is plotting to award a multi-million-dollar contract to create a giant national voter database as part of President Donald Trump’s scheme to federalize elections and sow distrust in the midterms, a new report reveals. The Trump administration has spent more than a year trying to obtain states’ complete, unredacted voter rolls—which contain sensitive voter data—despite widespread opposition from the states and the courts. The administration claims it needs the data to fight voter fraud, though court records and independent audits have repeatedly found that electoral fraud is vanishingly rare. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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