Markwayne Mullin Says State Officials Who Refuse to Cooperate to Secure Elections Could Face ‘Prison Time’
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Millin said officials in states that refuse to support the federal government’s election integrity effort could face serious consequences.
In a Thursday night speech, President Donald Trump said a Department of Homeland Security investigation of state that have shared voter information with the federal government revealed the presence of up to 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls.
“I will tell you, the states that choose not to participate with the SAVE program and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority to look at who voted in their states and hold them, the election officials, accountable,” Mullin said in a video posted to X.
The Daily Caller: Can you ensure to Americans that the midterm elections will be secure?
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: “Yes, we can absolutely build confidence in the American people [with our elections], but the states have to do their part.”
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“If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections and they chose not to, then those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison time,” he said
As noted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigraiton Services, SAVE is “an online service for registered federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local government agencies to verify immigration status and U.S. citizenship.”
Mullin also sent a message to anyone voting illegally, according to the Associated Press.He warned anyone who casts an illegal vote in the coming midterm election, “we will hunt you down, we will find you and we will prosecute you.”
Mullin said states who seek grants to support running elections will need to do things Trump’s way, according to NBC News.