Miles Parks

But polls show a majority of Republican voters are concerned about voter fraud in the midterms.

Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.

President Trump hasn't explicitly said he wants to use the National Guard to monitor this year's elections, but it's something voting officials have been worried about since Trump did say he wished he had deployed the Guard in 2020.

A new NPR-PBS News Marist poll finds such unprecedented action would be supported by 46% of Americans and roughly three in four Republicans.

Experts NPR spoke with said those numbers could indicate that many people do not know it's illegal for the federal government to deploy troops to monitor voting.

and that Trump has falsely but effectively convinced many that voter fraud is a widespread problem in American elections.

Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Miles Parks.

I cover voting.

And we also have NPR reporters Kat Lansdorff and Jude Joffe Block joining us today.

How do you both?

Hey.

Hey.

So today on the show, we're going to be talking about how the Department of Homeland Security is surveilling people in new ways, because you both, along with NPR's Meg Anderson, have been digging into a bunch of different tools that DHS is using to track both people who are in the United States illegally, but also U.S.

citizens.

And I want to start with this example of this woman in Minneapolis named Emily, who your story kind of opens with as well.

Kat, tell us about who she is and what her experience kind of shows.

OK, so, I mean, tell me more about what you're reporting found out specifically in Emily's case.

I mean, how was the government?