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   Republican election officials welcome the review,   
   which relies on a federal verification tool, but   
   they say they have not discovered a major problem   
   when it comes to noncitizen voters.   
      
   It was a common refrain for Donald J. Trump and   
   his allies during the 2024 campaign: The Biden   
   administration was purposely encouraging mass   
   numbers of immigrants to cross the border in   
   order to vote illegally.   
      
   But with the review underway, the results so far   
   indicate there is no evidence of widespread fraud,   
   according to interviews with government officials   
   and documents reviewed by The New York Times.   
      
   Out of 49.5 million voter registrations that have   
   been checked, the department referred around   
   10,000 cases to Homeland Security Investigations   
   for further investigation of noncitizenship, or   
   roughly .02 percent of the names processed,   
   according to Matthew Tragesser, a spokesman for   
   U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the   
   D.H.S. agency that oversees the program. A Justice   
   Department spokeswoman also said the administration   
   believed around 10,000 registered noncitizen voters   
   had been found.   
      
   They did not specify how many of those people had   
   voted.   
      
   Even that number could be inflated. The verification   
   tool has mistakenly flagged some people who appear   
   to actually be citizens, according to some local   
   election officials.   
      
   In Charlotte County, Fla., for instance, the elections   
   supervisor Leah Valenti, an appointee of Republican   
   Gov. Ron DeSantis, said she found that just 15 out of   
   176,000 names she uploaded to D.H.S. came back as   
   noncitizens. Of those, she found that three were people   
   mistakenly added to the rolls who never intended to   
   register to vote; they have since been removed. Two   
   others already sent in documentation to prove their   
   naturalized citizenship, she said.   
      
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