The Justice Department on Monday announced charges against 63 people in 15 states for illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and false claims of U.S. citizenship to register or vote. The department said four of those charged are in the country illegally; many of the others are lawful permanent residents (green-card holders), who are not allowed to vote in federal elections.
"Today's announcement marks the largest surge of voter-fraud arrests since President Trump returned to office," Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The department says it has charged 195 noncitizens in 25 states with illegal voting and registration offenses in the past nine weeks, and 239 people with voting-fraud offenses since the administration began.
Most of the cases described in the release involve ballots cast in the 2024 or 2022 federal elections, the Washington Examiner and The Salt Lake Tribune report. The Tribune notes one case, a Samoan national accused of voting in Utah in 2024, was charged as a misdemeanor; the defendant denied the allegations in court Friday. Charges are accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent.
The announcement came the same day federal judges in Washington barred the administration from pressing states to set aside ballots based on federal lists of suspected noncitizens.
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