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MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont’s secretary of state says she has no plans to share state voting data with the feds. President Donald Trump last month said he wants to do away with electronic voting and mail-in ballots, claiming they are ripe for fraud.
The letter sent to Vermont does not explicitly mention checks for people’s citizenship or immigration status. But this week, the Trump administration confirmed the justice department is sharing states’ voter roll information with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a search for non-citizens, according to Stateline.
While Vermont’s previous election laws required strict ballot chain of custody, Copeland Hanzas’ 2021 law, with its emphasis on mailed ballots, eliminated that critical feature. As a result, today we can no longer know with any degree of surety who actually voted the majority of the returned ballots in an election.