The Department of Homeland Security's training video states that the voter database was compiled with supplemental magic.
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Letters from an AmericanSep 15, 2026
Multiple sources quote the DHS training video as describing the data as compiled with "supplemental magic," which matches the claim. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage, and the claim is about the training video's content rather than whether the phrase is meaningful. Most of these reports trace back to the same whistleblower disclosure, so independence is limited.
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… Democrat on the Committee on Rules and Administration, and Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat of New York, the Senate minority leader, to Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph B. Edlow. The department's training video says the database was compiled with supplemental magic. Taken together, the administration's continued flirtation with Vladimir Putin and his associates, its use of our tax dollars to imprison immigrants in substandard conditions, and its determination to rig the 2026 election add up to an attempt to establish an …
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Supports. A Senate letter from Sen. Padilla and colleagues to AG Bonta quotes the official training video as stating the data was compiled with "supplemental magic."[2]
Supports. Reason reports a transcript of the training video stating that DHS cross-references USCIS data with voter rolls and other information "brought in through supplemental magic," while noting it is unclear what the phrase means.[4]
Supports. Senate Democrats' press release on the whistleblower disclosure describes the required use of unreliable source data compiled with so-called "supplemental magic."[3]
Supports. The AP report on the whistleblower statement describes the DHS training materials and the disclosure's screenshots and transcripts of the training, which is the underlying record for the quoted phrase.[1]
Context. Coverage of the training's content comes largely from the same whistleblower disclosure, so these sources are not fully independent of one another. The phrase's meaning is disputed or unexplained, but the claim concerns only what the video states.[1][4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate US citizens, whistleblower allegesapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2September 18, 2026 The Honorable Rob Bonta Attorney ...padilla.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3NEWS: Schiff, Padilla to AG Bonta: Investigate Shocking ...schiff.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Homeland Security Agents Are Harassing American Voters of ...reason.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 51advancingjustice-aajc.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Whistleblower: Federal agents may have broken state laws in search for voter fraudbostonglobe.com · not rated · cited for: context
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