Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic

Per Axios, the FBI recently obtained the IP address of a voter who registered online in South Carolina — a tactic that reveals how federal authorities are escalating their investigation of voter rolls under pressure from President Trump. An IP address can show geographic location and service provider, potentially indicating whether someone registered from outside the state or country. For the York County election official who handled the request, it was the first such inquiry from law enforcement in his twenty-year tenure. The Justice Department is suing thirty states and Washington D-C for voter roll access, while the Department of Homeland Security seeks voter data in Texas and North Carolina. Critics, including a former Justice Department official, characterize this push as inappropriate and unprecedented — federal overreach based, in their view, on what they call the president's baseless claims about fraud in the twenty twenty election.

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