PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) — The Secretary of the Commonwealth in Pennsylvania is asking the Department of Homeland Security to show its work surrounding the claim that there are more than 14,000 noncitizen voters in the state.
In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, the Department of State challenges the accuracy of the claims that 14,576 noncitizens.
Secretary Al Schmidt is on record asserting that DHS has not identified its methodology or what data it used to arrive at that figure.
“As you know, past analyses of voter lists have relied on faulty methodologies that can lead to inaccurate results and false claims about the citizenship status of eligible voters,” Schmidt wrote in a letter to Mullin.
In the letter, Schmidt pointed out how DHS has previously acknowledged that its SAVE database is not entirely reliable and has returned inaccurate citizenship records in the past.
Schmidt penned that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official responsible for overseeing SAVE acknowledged the system “can’t always find the most current citizenship information” for people not born in the U.S.
“In order to evaluate the claims in your letter and determine appropriate next steps, please provide a document explaining your methodology,” Schmidt requested of Mullin and DHS.
He reminded DHS that Pennsylvania is dedicated to ensuring free, fair, safe, and secure elections and “only eligible voters” have the opportunity to make their voices heard.
All 67 counties in Pennsylvania remove voters who have moved, died, or become otherwise ineligible and, in 2025, counties canceled more than 338,000 registrations, Schmidt claimed.
“Because the right to vote is sacred, the cancellation of any record is based on a prescriptive statutory process and reliable data sources,” he wrote in the letter.