Election Enforcement Apparatus

IRS 990 filings document six funders that each gave to three or more organizations in this network. DonorsTrust: CPI 2.6M, AFL 3.3M, PILF 501K, TTV 508K, Heritage 1.5M, CRA 256K, totaling 8.7M+. Bradley Impact Fund: AFL 27.4M, CPI 1.3M, PILF 1.15M, TTV 216K, Heritage 624K, CRA 50K, totaling 30.7M+. Servant Foundation: CPI 7.99M, PILF 901K, TTV 34K, CRA 104K, totaling 9M+. Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation: PILF 1.3M, CPI 450K, Heritage 975K, totaling 2.7M+. Sarah Scaife Foundation: PILF 1.275M (2020-2023). 85 Fund (Leo): DonorsTrust 267.7M (2020-2023), PILF 400K direct, totaling 268M+. CPI acts as a redistribution point, receiving from DonorsTrust, Servant, and Bradley and then making Schedule I grants to AFL, PILF, FAIR/EIN, CRA, and AAF. Personnel from these grantees subsequently moved into government roles: Riordan (from PILF) to the DOJ Voting Section, Honey (from FAIR/CPI) to DHS election integrity, and TTV coordinated with DOGE at SSA. The filings establish a funding chain from these foundations into organizations whose staff later took federal positions.

DOJ shares voter roll data obtained from states with DHS, which has repurposed its SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) database — originally built for immigration status checks of benefit applicants — to verify voter registration. Heather Honey (DHS election integrity, former FAIR Elections Fund VP) denied on Sept 11, 2025 that DHS was using DOJ voter data, but DHS contradicted her the same day, confirming the data would feed the SAVE system. DHS published a Federal Register SORN expanding SAVE to add voter registration and verification as an official purpose. The chain runs as follows: SSA/DOGE provides identity data; the DOJ Voting Section, staffed by former PILF personnel, collects voter rolls from states under confidential MOUs; DOJ shares the rolls with DHS, which cross-references them against the SAVE immigration database; and DOJ orders states to purge flagged voters within 45 days. All three agencies draw on organizations funded by CPI, DonorsTrust, and Bradley.

DOJ sent a confidential MOU to at least 12 states requiring them to hand over full voter registration databases (including Social Security and driver's license numbers), submit to DOJ analysis, and remove any voters DOJ flags as ineligible within 45 days. At least 12 states provided voter rolls: Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. Alaska and Texas signed the MOU. The sequence runs from former PILF personnel staffing the DOJ Voting Section, to DOJ demanding voter rolls from states, to DOJ flagging voters for removal, to states purging them within 45 days. The Brennan Center has warned this may violate the National Voter Registration Act, which requires specific processes for voter removal.

Heather Honey (now DHS election integrity) serves as VP on the FAIR Elections Fund board alongside Cleta Mitchell, its president. FAIR is housed at the Conservative Partnership Institute. CPI also funded the Election Integrity Network, as did the Center for Renewing America (the organization associated with Russ Vought and Jeffrey Clark). These ties connect outside advocacy organizations to DHS election policy through a chain running from Mitchell to FAIR/EIN/CPI to Honey to DHS.

PILF, Judicial Watch, and True the Vote form a closely connected group, linked to DOJ through Pam Bondi and Kurt Olsen

Three overlapping groups recur across this network. PILF, Judicial Watch, and True the Vote share membership. PILF, Cleta Mitchell, and the Election Integrity Network do as well, as do CPI, the Center for Renewing America, and the Election Integrity Network. Each is connected to DOJ through Pam Bondi and the DOJ Voting Section, Eric Neff, and Harmeet Dhillon. Christina Bobb and Robert Popper are linked through Judicial Watch, and Mark Paoletta, Russ Vought, and Jeffrey Clark through the Center for Renewing America. Together these ties trace a route from advocacy organizations to DOJ enforcement.

Federal election-enforcement activity expanded across six steps between August 2025 and March 2026

The sequence runs as follows. In August 2025, Heather Honey (a former Cyber Ninjas subcontractor) was appointed DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity, and DOJ sent voter data demands to more than 15 states. Between August and September 2025, PILF lawyer Riordan became acting chief of the DOJ Voting Section. In December 2025, DOJ sued Fulton County for ballot documents. In January 2026, NFED was created on Jan 8 and the FBI raided Fulton County on Jan 28. In March 2026, HSI, a unit focused on drug cartels, was repurposed for Arizona election probes. Across these steps, personnel placements generally preceded legal actions by 30 to 60 days. Stephen Miller has been described as the driving force behind the HSI redirection.

Federal fraud-enforcement structures expanded in three steps between November 2025 and March 2026. On Nov 24, DOGE was dissolved, though its data infrastructure, embedded CIOs, and voter data pipeline remained. On Jan 8, NFED was created with a White House reporting line and nationwide fraud jurisdiction, and McDonald (WWG co-chair) was nominated to lead it; on Jan 16, DOJ acknowledged DOGE data misconduct; and on Jan 25, Bondi demanded Minnesota voter rolls alongside an ICE operation. On Mar 16, an executive order created the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vance, targeting California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado (all states Biden carried) and mandating federal-state data sharing. The voter data pipeline DOGE built (SSA to DHS to SAVE to states) now has two parallel enforcement structures, NFED for prosecution and the Task Force for investigation, both supervised by the White House. PIN, the election-crimes unit, was reduced to two to five lawyers. NFED's charter does not list election fraud but gives it jurisdiction over 'fraud affecting federal programs,' which could encompass voter registration in federally funded systems.

The FBI seized Fulton County, Georgia 2020 ballots in January 2026 based on a criminal referral drafted by Kurt Olsen of the White House. Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was personally present at the raid. Ed Martin of the Weaponization Working Group says he is working with Olsen on election integrity. The operation drew together the White House, DOJ, and ODNI around 2020 election materials in a contested state, with no prior precedent for a DNI's personal involvement in a domestic election-evidence seizure.

Five organizations form an overlapping network active in election enforcement, with several recurring patterns in the record. PILF president J. Christian Adams served as True the Vote counsel in 2013 cases, and PILF is a co-party in TTV v. IRS (2025-26). All five rely on NVRA voter-roll-maintenance suits as a primary legal tool. PILF sued Michigan Secretary of State Benson, and the Trump DOJ sued the same defendant on the same theory two weeks later. Tom Fitton says DOJ follows Judicial Watch's lead. AFL leadership (Miller, Hamilton, Rubinstein, Whitaker, Meadows, Vought) has moved between these organizations and the federal government. Heritage supplies the underlying framework through its election fraud database and Project 2025 chapter. Taken together, the record suggests a sequence in which Heritage provides data and framing, AFL, PILF, Judicial Watch, and True the Vote file NVRA suits, and the Trump DOJ follows with federal enforcement.

Overlapping personnel link CPI nonprofits, the ODNI Fulton raid, DOJ voter-roll requests, the DHS SAVE expansion, and the SAVE Act legislation

Activity spans five areas. In the nonprofit network, CPI incubated the Election Integrity Network (Mitchell), AFL (Miller), FAIRE, and VoteRef, deployed EagleAI voter-challenge software, and drew funding from DonorsTrust, Uihlein, and Bradley. On executive action, EO 14248 directed DHS, DOGE, and SSA data sharing, DOJ requested voter rolls from 48 states, and the SAVE system was reworked for bulk citizenship checks with a reported 25 to 35 percent false-positive rate. In intelligence, Gabbard's ODNI took an unusual role in domestic election operations, the Fulton County ballot seizure rested on debunked claims, and CISA election security was cut by 495M and roughly 30 percent of its workforce. In legislation, the SAVE Act (HR 22) would require citizenship documents that an estimated 21M Americans lack, with the Only Citizens Vote Coalition lobbying alongside 80+ organizations. In litigation, PILF filed eight or more voter-roll-purge suits, AFL challenged election administration in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and DOJ dismissed a Virginia voter-purge case. Recurring connectors include Cleta Mitchell (EIN, FAIRE, PILF chair, OCVC), Kurt Olsen (White House election security, Fulton raid referral), Hans von Spakovsky (Heritage, PILF, private meetings with state officials), and Stephen Miller (AFL, White House senior advisor).

House Oversight Committee Democrats published staff report titled Fraud as Pretext on March 4, 2026, documenting how fraud claims are being used as justification to deploy federal law enforcement. Report covers ICE/CBP deployments in Minneapolis and other locations.