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Some non-citizens were registered to vote by NGOs and rights groups that did not inform them that they were ineligible to vote.

Posted by unDivided with Brandi Kruse, Checked

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unDivided with Brandi KruseOct 27, 2026
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The sources do not establish that NGOs or rights groups registered non-citizens without telling them they were ineligible. The only related reporting is an open federal investigation into three Arizona nonprofits, based on an undercover video, and the DNC calls the allegations fabricated, so the claim remains unproven rather than refuted.

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… So, they're on notice of that, but that's additional evidence and information that I need to go get before I bring charges. And, in addition to that, I think a lot of these people are just being misled. We know that they've been, some of them have been registered by NGOs, rights groups that go out to knock on your door and say, do you want to get registered to vote? And they don't tell them that they're not allowed to, you know, vote. And then a couple of them, they went to English for Second Language classes. Um, we're looking into the organizations that were teaching those classes because they offered to sign them up to vote and didn't tell them that they weren't allowed to vote. …
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What we found

Context. The Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office opened a case into three nonprofits (Worker Power, Stand Indivisible AZ, When We Count) over alleged registration of non-citizens, and the matter was referred to the FBI; this is an allegation under investigation, not a finding.[4][5]

Context. The Arizona allegations rest on an Oct. 22 video from Muckraker, a right-wing outlet, and the DNC says it is not aware of any instances of its fellows registering a noncitizen and calls the allegations fabricated.[4]

Context. Reuters found that non-citizen registrations were mainly caused by inadvertent bureaucratic failures in driver's license and ID processing, not organized efforts to register immigrants illegally, though it did not address NGO registration practices specifically.[1]

Context. The claim's source is the speaker's own statement that 'some of them have been registered by NGOs'; the passage supplies no evidence, and the sources do not describe NGOs failing to disclose ineligibility to registrants in Washington or elsewhere.[2][3]

Sources

5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 1, 2 not rated

  1. 1How US states mistakenly added 30,000 non-citizens to voter rollsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  2. 2Eastern District of Washington | Federal data shows hundreds ...justice.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  3. 3Hundreds of Washington state voters may be noncitizensthehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
  4. 4Just four days before Election Day, DOJ probes Arizona voter registrationsaxios.com · not rated · cited for: context
  5. 5Are these Arizona groups registering noncitizens to vote ...azfamily.com · not rated · cited for: context

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