Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened to withhold federal funding from four states unless they complied with new election security mandates

In a press conference Friday morning, one day after President Donald Trump asserted there were election vulnerabilities in the United States during a nationwide address, Mullin said his department identified 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada, the sole Republican-led state of the four.

“We are going to make our security enhancements mandatory, meaning that if these states want a grant and they want to be reimbursed to work or to run federal elections, they’re going to have to implement security issues,” Mullin said.

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