Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened to withhold federal funding from four states unless they complied with new election security mandates.In a press conference Friday morning, one day after President Donald Trump asserted there were election vulnerabilities in the United States during a nationwide address, Mullin said his department identified 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada, the sole Republican-led state of the four.“We are going to make our security enhancements mandatory, meaning that if these states want a grant and they want to be reimbursed to work or to run federal elections, they're going to have to implement security issues,” Mullin said.Mullin said the states would have to comply with the department’s “SAVE program,” which would consist of scrubbing voter registration lists to ensure those voting are U.S. citizens.It’s unclear how DHS obtained the data or whether those individuals actually voted. There is no concrete evidence that large numbers of noncitizen voters in the last presidential election, according to a review from the Center for Election Innovation & Research.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said it would be ‘mandatory’ for states to comply with the administration’s new election security policies (Getty)Mullin further escalated concerns with election security by insisting foreign actors could hack into voting systems, change people’s votes and change their voter registration – however, there is no evidence from past election analyses to suggest that has happened in U.S. elections “We know it’s possible. There’s not a question. It’s not even for debate. One thing I love about numbers and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin said, despite there being no evidence that a foreign actor has changed election results in the U.S. More follows…