LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 05: Voters go to the polls for Super Tuesday primaries in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights on February 5, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Latinos are an increasingly important factor in California where they are expected to account for 14 percent of the vote and tend to favor presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) over rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). At 44 million, Latinos make up15 percent of the US population, the nation's largest minority group according to the latest Census Bureau estimates. (Credit: Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking detainees whether they have voted illegally and how they cast their ballots as part of a broader federal election-fraud operation that has drawn on nearly 100 million records and considered using undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register.
ICE added a question about illegal voting to its booking intake system in late August, according to The Washington Post. An internal email said that beginning Oct. 1, detainees who acknowledge voting illegally should also be asked whether they voted in person or by mail.
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