A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Monday.

The Department of Homeland Security probe known as the “Unlawful Voter Initiative” also asks employees to create federal law enforcement records about voters based on unreliable data, the account warns. That could potentially wrongly implicate U.S. citizens in official documentation that could spur further investigation.

The anonymous, nearly 30-page disclosure was published Monday by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California, the ranking member of a Senate committee overseeing federal elections.

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    Ah, glad to see the DNC loyalists are already spinning the party’s refusal to hold Trump or anyone else accountable. For a moment I thought they might miss this trick and sanity might prevail.

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      Yeah for sure. Not voting for the lesser of the only 2 mathematically possible evils is insanity.

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        If that were true you might have had a point, but all that’s necessary for an actually good candidate to win is for you ShitLibs not to split the anti Trump vote with a Democrat genocide enthusiast who cannot win the EC.

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          Split what now? It’s fucking 48-48-4 or something ridiculous. Non voters are the biggest thing keeping corporate shitheads in charge.

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            Yeah, if you don’t know enough about political science to understand what I said before, then you aren’t ready for this conversation. It requires an understanding somewhat deeper than the tenth grade civics class that most people believe taught them everything they need to know about the electoral system in the US.