[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-ice-explored-using-deportation-tool-to-hunt-voter-fraud":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},10819,"ice-explored-using-deportation-tool-to-hunt-voter-fraud","ICE Explored Using Deportation Tool to Hunt Voter Fraud","Emails show the agency considered feeding voter rolls into Palantir-supported software built to flag deportation targets.","ICE looked into running state voter rolls through a tool built to find people to deport.\n\nDocuments obtained by the advocacy group Democracy Forward show ICE officials discussed feeding voter roll data into ELITE, a tool supported by Palantir that is normally used to identify targets for deportation. The emails describe the idea as something under internal discussion for investigating voter fraud, not a system already deployed. There is no indication in the emails that any voter data was actually run through the tool. Still, the exchange shows a tool built for immigration enforcement being floated for an entirely different job: checking election records.\n\nRepurposing a deportation tool for voter-fraud checks would blur the line between immigration surveillance and election administration, two systems that normally don't share data. It also raises a basic fit problem: software tuned to flag undocumented immigrants isn't obviously suited to spotting fraudulent ballots, and using it that way risks flagging eligible voters, including naturalized citizens, as suspects.\n\nFor now, this is a discussion caught in an email chain, not a deployed policy. It shows how easily a tool built for one enforcement mission gets pitched for another.","[\"ice\",\"palantir\",\"voter-fraud\",\"surveillance\"]","2026-10-08T22:40:11.000Z","2026-10-09T16:25:42.060Z","2026-10-09T16:25:48.168Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The closing line claims this is 'the first one aimed at the ballot box' and that Palantir tools 'keep turning up in new jobs nobody remembers approving' — neither the pattern claim nor the 'first' designation is supported by the source material or earlier in the piece, so cut or source that assertion.","resolved","policy",[32,33,34,35],"ice","palantir","voter-fraud","surveillance",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"Wired","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wired.com\u002Fstory\u002Fice-emails-discuss-using-palantir-supported-tool-to-investigate-voter-fraud\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,52,55,60,65,69,74,79,84,89,94,99,104],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",6606,"2026-10-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":47},"Security","security",926,{"name":53,"slug":30,"count":54,"latest_published_at":18},"Policy",486,{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Deals","deals",474,"2026-10-08T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Hardware","hardware",229,"2026-10-08T20:47:10.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":47},"Science","science",192,{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",181,"2026-10-08T23:26:35.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Startups","startups",117,"2026-10-08T16:45:00.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Software","software",114,"2026-10-08T17:57:01.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",105,"2026-10-07T16:59:11.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",66,"2026-10-09T04:46:11.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Gaming","gaming",58,"2026-10-08T20:08:45.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Reviews","reviews",34,"2026-10-08T14:00:22.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]