Donald Trump claims that non-U.S. citizens are registered to vote and use postal votes to cast ballots in elections.

Posted by Americast, Sep 16, 2026Checked Oct 30, 2026

Polygraph verdictTrue

Sources: 2 contradict3 support
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 85%

AmericastSep 16, 2026

The claim is about Trump making these assertions, and several tier1 sources confirm he repeatedly claimed noncitizens are on voter rolls and that mail ballots enable fraud, including in July 2026 remarks.

This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.

What was said

… As you mentioned, North Carolina ballots are already in people's hands. So changing the rules, On how they apply it was impractical in the extreme Donald Trump's argument is that, as you said, that there's a lot of fraud in mail-in voting, and he claims, isn't he? That it's? A lot of non-U s citizens have somehow managed to get themselves onto the voter rolls. And that they use postal votes to cast their votes. And that that's illegal. And it would be, it's illegal for them to vote, it's illegal for a state official to sign them up. And, crucially, there's no evidence that this happens in very big numbers at all. …

Americast · Sep 16, 2026· from the transcriptPost →

What we found

Supports. FactCheck.org reports Trump claimed a DHS investigation identified about 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections, and that he continued to claim without evidence that large numbers of noncitizens are on voter rolls.[1]

Supports. The BBC reports Trump has been alleging "rampant" cheating in postal voting and non-citizens voting ahead of the midterms, and has made repeated unsubstantiated claims that postal voting leads to widespread fraud.[3]

Supports. Snopes reports that in a July 16, 2026 primetime address Trump alleged large numbers of noncitizens on voter rolls and called mail-in ballots "inherently corrupt."[2]

Contradicts. The sources dispute the substance of the claim: AFP and BBC report that noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare and that there is no evidence of widespread mail-voting fraud, and a federal judge called Trump's noncitizen voting claims "not credible."[3][4][5]

Context. Because the claim is framed as Trump's claim, the verdict turns on the act of claiming rather than the truth of the content. The extracted claim matches the passage's substance, though the passage's specific link between noncitizens and postal voting is somewhat looser in the sources than in the claim.[2][3]