Department of Homeland Security agents violated specific state election laws while investigating voter fraud.

"Heading: DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday. DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said. The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare and the effort has only turned up a handful of cases so far."

"Heading: Federal agents may have broken state laws in voter fraud hunt, whistleblower claims The report details that last month the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative. Those enlisted federal agents then began scouring voter rolls, plugging personally identifiable information (PII) into public-facing state websites to check for an individual's voter history."