Mullin tightens election security with penalties for noncompliant officials

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned that election officials who don’t implement the administration’s security updates could face fines, penalties, or prison time, and he vowed to make security enhancements mandatory while withholding federal election-security grants until states comply, including running voter rolls through noncitizen-check systems; the effort, framed as domestic accountability, follows DOJ warnings and Trump’s rhetoric, though experts say noncitizen voting is rare and the SAVE-based estimates are contested, with DHS/CISA planning an updated election-infrastructure plan.