The Trump Administration Is Wreaking Havoc on the Electoral System Before the Midterms

Polls are looking pretty bleak for Republicans—and the Trump administration’s various attempts to interfere with the elections haven’t been too successful either.

In recent weeks, the Department of Justice, helmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche, a proponent of conspiracy theories about widespread noncitizen voting in the 2020 election, has pulled out all the stops to sow doubt in voters’ minds about the security and validity of the electoral process.

To do this, the DOJ has spent the last year demanding unredacted voter rolls, issuing executive orders to wrest control of elections from states, raiding election offices, proposing new laws to disenfranchise millions of citizens, and claiming that noncitizens were voting en masse across the country. (Incidents of verified noncitizen voting are vanishingly rare, as multiple bipartisan investigations have shown.)