States Limit Data Sharing with DHS After Federal Election Security Funding Cuts

Local election officials across multiple states are limiting data sharing with the Department of Homeland Security after federal funding cuts and personnel changes reduced federal election security support. Npr reported that the Trump administration eliminated federal funding for the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center in 2025 as part of DOGE cuts.

EI-ISAC membership has since fallen to less than 20 percent of its prior level.

U.S. elections. Berntsen has stated there are 14 different technical ways to steal an election.

Mullin wrote on January 2, 2021, that fraud and uncertainty surrounding the 2020 election prevented him from voting to certify the Electoral College. He was one of 147 congressional Republicans who voted not to certify the 2020 results on January 6, 2021.

Matt Crane, former Republican county clerk and current head of Colorado's local election officials organization, said he is actively discouraging sharing voter data with the federal government.

Crane stated he does not trust how the administration is using that data or whether it will remain confidential. The Trump administration has taken states to court to obtain private voter registration data and has attempted, and in some cases succeeded, to access voting machines and ballots.

White House border czar Tom Homan stated on The Charlie Kirk Show this spring that part of DHS's job is to secure elections and declined to disclose plans for immigration enforcement at voting locations.

At his March confirmation hearing, Mullin stated DHS agents would only be present at polling places if there was a specific threat. Most people working on election security issues within CISA were pushed out or resigned last year, and the agency has been without a Senate-confirmed leader for the entirety of President Trump's second term.