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Alex Padilla: “The 2026 midterm elections are already underway. Your unsubstantiated allegations of noncitizen voter fraud, public…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2026
The 2026 midterm elections are already underway. Your unsubstantiated allegations of noncitizen voter fraud, public recitation of unreliable data, and unwarranted conditioning of continued grant funding for state election security measures on compliance with politically motivated requests for voter data appear to be calculated efforts to undermine confidence in our elections and risks wrongly disenfranchising voters.
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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Senators express concerns over election integrity.

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