Inspectors under the direction of top Homeland Security leaders have about twelve minutes per case to determine a voter's citizenship status and voting history.
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Letters from an AmericanSep 15, 2026
Multiple sources, including a primary Senate whistleblower letter, report a quota of 40 cases per day over eight hours (about 12 minutes per case) for USCIS staff working on the DHS Unlawful Voter Initiative under top DHS direction.
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… The Department of Homeland Security launched the unlawful voter initiative last month, deploying hundreds of agents to look through voter rolls to try to find evidence of voter fraud. The whistleblower says inspectors have about twelve minutes per case to determine a voter's citizenship status and voting history, and it appears they have been posing as those individual voters by using birth dates or partial Social Security numbers they gleaned from both internal and external sources to find wrongdoing. …
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Supports. The Senate whistleblower letter states the quota of 5 subjects per hour, or 40 per day over 8 hours, which it equates to approximately 12 minutes per subject.[3]
Supports. AP reports the whistleblower contends agents were asked to review 40 individuals per day, giving them about 12 minutes to determine whether each person is a legal voter, and that they were directed to pose as individual voters to access state records.[1]
Supports. Senator Padilla's press release describes officers facing quotas requiring five investigations per hour, or 12 minutes each, under pressure from USCIS headquarters.[4]
Supports. Reuters reports USCIS officers were given a goal of vetting five names per hour, though one source said the target was rarely met, which bears on actual pace rather than the assigned time per case.[2]
Context. The 12-minute figure is the whistleblower's account, derived from assigned quotas; the DHS statement defends the search effort but does not dispute the time allotted.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Whistleblower says DHS voter probe may break lawsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2White House pushes for speedy review of voter rolls in hunt for noncitizen votersreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 309.13.26 - Senate Whistleblower Letter DHS USCIS_combined_signed.pdfdemocrats.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Padilla, Schumer Announce DHS Whistleblower Report ...padilla.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5Whistleblower: Federal agents may have broken state laws in search for voter fraudbostonglobe.com · not rated · cited for: context
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