Of 64 cases brought by the Justice Department related to non-citizen voting, 56 individuals are lawful permanent residents.
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The NPR Politics PodcastOct 26, 2026
The claim faithfully extracts the passage, which is the claimant's own review of 64 court files, so it cannot be verified from that. NBC's later review (Nov 1) finds that roughly three-quarters of about 200 prosecutions target lawful permanent residents, which is directionally consistent but a different sample, so it neither confirms nor refutes the specific 56-of-64 figure.
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… noted is that there have been some very tight House races or Senate races where you can have a smaller number ultimately be determinative of the winner. That's the Justice Department's perspective here. That is how they are presenting this publicly, but what I did is I looked at the court documents for 64 of the cases that the Justice Department has brought so far related to non-citizen voting. Of those 64, 56, at least 56 people, are lawful permanent residents, in other words, people who went through the legal process to be here. Um, only four are here illegally, of the 64 that I looked at, so really a very small number. …
The NPR Politics Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. NBC News review finds about three-quarters of roughly 200 DOJ noncitizen-voting prosecutions target lawful permanent residents, directionally consistent with the claim that most charged people are LPRs.[3]
Context. The 56-of-64 figure comes from the claimant's own review of court documents for 64 cases; the post is not evidence for its own claim.[4]
Context. DOJ announced 28 charged in a California sweep were lawful permanent residents, and a 16-defendant DOJ release names several LPRs, but neither gives a count across the 64-case sample.[1][2]
Context. Extraction drops the 'at least' qualifier on 56 people, a minor imprecision that does not change the verdict.[4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 2 tier 2
- 1Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting alleged noncitizen votersapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Justice Department Announces Charges Involving 16 ...justice.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Majority of noncitizen voters charged by DOJ are lawfully in U.S.nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4The DOJ wades into elections with unprecedented casesnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
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