美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）现在正在对帮助美国人投票的人进行调查。根据法律非营利组织“民主向前”（Democracy Forward）获取的内部政府文件，ICE的调查部门——国土安全调查局（Homeland Security Investigations）在过去一年中对数百个参与选民登记的非营利组织和机构进行了审查，其中包括宾夕法尼亚州的至少82个组织和新泽西州的41个组织。
ICE is now investigating the people who help Americans to vote. According to internal government documents obtained by the legal nonprofit Democracy Forward, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, spent the past year scrutinizing hundreds of nonprofits and organizations involved in voter registration, including at least 82 organizations in Pennsylvania and 41 in New Jersey.
这些文件是通过最近的一项《信息自由法》（Freedom of Information Act）诉讼获得的，文件显示，该机构曾考虑派遣卧底特工与涉嫌协助非水准公民投票的组织进行接触。
These documents were obtained through a recent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and they show the agency considered using undercover agents to communicate with organizations suspected of helping noncitizens to vote.
一份6月份的报告显示，调查人员已经调入了来自司法部数据集的5060万条记录，以及通过该文件称为“独立来源”获得的另外484万条记录。这意味着近1亿条记录正被用于分析潜在的调查线索。今年，国土安全调查局表示已立案418起选民欺诈案，但这418起案件中有318起未被移送起诉——这意味着据报道，许多调查最终一无所获。
A June report says investigators had taken in 50.6 million records from a Justice Department dataset, plus another 48.4 million records obtained through what the document calls “independent sources.”That’s nearly 100 million records being analyzed for potential investigative leads. This year, Homeland Security Investigations said it had opened 418 voter-fraud cases, but 318 of those 418 cases had not been referred for prosecution — meaning a lot of the investigations reportedly produced nothing.
根据这些文件，国土安全调查局将重点放在了俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州等摇摆州的非营利组织上，同时也将华盛顿特区和明尼苏达州等地作为目标。据“民主 docket”（Democracy Docket）网站报道，各州的选民名册信息可能还被输入了Palantir的ELITE系统，这是ICE用来识别、优先处理和定位移民执法目标的工具。
According to the documents, Homeland Security Investigations focused on nonprofit groups in battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as targeting places like Washington, D.C., and Minnesota. State voter-roll information may have also been entered into Palantir’s ELITE system, an ICE tool used to identify, prioritize and locate people targeted for immigration enforcement, according to Democracy Docket.
联邦法律已经禁止非公民投票。政府调查的不是涉嫌非法投票的个人（这本是合法的），而是调查那些帮助人们投票的组织。这对每个人来说都应该是成问题的。本届政府有对我们的选举合法性提出性质质疑的有案可查的历史。
Noncitizen voting is already prohibited under federal law. The government was not investigating a person suspected of illegally voting, which would have been valid — it was investigating the organizations helping people to vote. Which should be problematic for everyone. This administration has a documented history of challenging the legitimacy of our elections.
切勿忘记，2020年大选失利后，唐纳德·特朗普曾向佐治亚州官员施压，要求州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格“找出”足够多的选票来扭转败局。直到如今，这位总统仍拒不承认自己输掉了2020年大选。数年之后，他的政府建立起庞大的联邦机构来专门调查选举舞弊行为，如今这些机构的职责范围甚至扩展至审查非营利组织、核查选民名单以及考虑实施卧底行动。
Don’t forget, Donald Trump pressured Georgia officials after losing the 2020 election, and asked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse his defeat. To this day, the president won’t even admit he lost the the 2020 election. Now, years later, his administration has built an enormous federal apparatus around finding voter fraud, which now apparently includes examining nonprofits, scrutinizing voter rolls and considering undercover operations.
现有证据显示，选举舞弊现象极为罕见。布伦南中心对42个地区的2350万张选票进行过调查，仅发现了30起疑似舞弊案例——这一数字相当于每100万张选票中才出现一例。近期各州开展的审计结果也类似：舞弊案例数量极少，根本无法影响选举结果。这种做法必须立刻叫停。林赛·格兰杰是NewsNation的撰稿人，也是《国会山报》评论节目《Rising》的联合主持人。本文为她节目中评论内容的编辑整理版。
The available evidence shows that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare. One Brennan Center study of 23.5 million votes across 42 jurisdictions, found just 30 suspected cases of voter fraud. Thirty — that’s roughly one for every million votes. More recent state audits have similarly found numbers that were extremely low and did not sway the outcome of the election in any way. This has to stop. Lindsey Granger is a NewsNation contributor and co-host of The Hill’s commentary show “Rising.”This column is an edited transcription of her on-air commentary.