A Census Bureau report that Trump has cited as proof of noncitizen voting turns out to be built on shaky ground.
WIRED examined the report's methodology and found serious flaws in the data and the process used to produce it. The outlet also identified several of the report's authors, including one person previously affiliated with DOGE, the Trump administration's cost-cutting task force. Trump had pointed to the report's findings as validation for his long-running claims that noncitizens are voting in US elections. WIRED's reporting suggests the underlying numbers can't support that conclusion.
That gap matters because this report isn't just an academic exercise, it's being used as political ammunition. When a government report gets cited by a sitting president to justify claims about election integrity, the quality of its data isn't a technical footnote. It's the whole case.
Noncitizen voting claims have circulated for years without hard evidence. A flawed Census report doesn't change that, it just adds a government letterhead.