Last August, as part of the federal government's crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status. But seven months later, findings from five states shared with KFF Health News show that the reviews have uncovered little evidence of a widespread problem.
My worry with this is that he wasn't actually looking for undocumented Medicaid enrollees--he was looking for an easy way to identify undocumented parents of US citizen child enrollees.
-- Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) Apr 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth
www.brennancenter.org (2017)
... Sensationalist claims have circulated this election season about the extent of voter fraud, with some politicians going so far as to tell voters to fear that this November's election will be "rigged." Because electoral integrity is one of the elements necessary to making America the greatest democracy in the world, claims like this garner media attention, and frighten and concern voters. But putting rhetoric aside to look at the facts makes clear that fraud by voters at the polls is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to "rig" an election. ...
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