WASHINGTON — Federal agents investigating suspected unlawful voter registrations may have violated state laws by using false attestations to obtain individual voter records, according to a report from an anonymous whistleblower made public Monday by two Democratic senators. The whistleblower, represented by the nonprofit Democracy Defenders Fund, described a Department of Homeland Security operation called the Unlawful Voter Initiative. The department began assigning additional personnel to the effort last month, the report says, directing agents to examine voter rolls and enter personally identifiable information into publicly accessible state election websites. Some state websites require users to confirm that they are the voter in question or have that person’s permission before viewing records. The report alleges that federal employees may have been instructed to make those confirmations even when they were neither the voter nor authorized by the voter. Such representations could violate state laws, the report says. Virginia’s voter-information portal is cited as one example of a site requiring an attestation during a voter-record search. The report alleges that the initiative may already have produced thousands of potential state-law violations, with the conduct occurring with the knowledge or direction of senior officials at DHS headquarters. The whistleblower also said the department’s Office of Chief Counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services advised that agents could use state voter websites for investigative or adjudicative purposes. DHS did not respond to a request for comment. The report includes training materials that acknowledge inconsistencies in the data agents were using. It also alleges that officers were assigned a workload of at least five people per hour, or 40 per day — leaving roughly 12 minutes to determine whether each person was a U.S. citizen or might be classified as an unlawful voter. Sen. Alex Padilla of California and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the report and urged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow to stop the initiative. They warned that inaccurate federal data and hurried investigations could interfere with state and local election administration or disenfranchise eligible voters ahead of the November election. The allegations come amid an expanding Trump administration campaign involving multiple federal agencies to identify and prosecute noncitizens who may appear on state voter rolls. Election audits and reviews have repeatedly found that noncitizen voting is rare. Election officials and voting-rights advocates have cautioned that voter databases often contain outdated or mismatched information, making broad investigations vulnerable to false matches and mistaken accusations. The concerns about DHS agents’ access to state voter systems were first publicly reported earlier this month. The whistleblower’s account has not been independently verified, and the report does not establish that any specific voter was improperly removed from the rolls or prosecuted.