The Department of Justice has announced approximately 100 prosecutions for non-citizen voting.
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The NPR Politics PodcastOct 26, 2026
Multiple sources, including a DOJ spokesperson statement, put the number of people the DOJ has charged or announced in noncitizen or illegal voting cases at roughly 100 or more by October. The count includes registration offenses, and a Stanford-style analysis warns that cumulative press-release counts overstate distinct cases, so the figure is approximate rather than precise.
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… Alright, we are gonna take a quick break, and we will be right back. And we're back, and as you guys were talking about the approximately a hundred prosecutions that the Justice Department has announced for non-citizen voting, it struck me that that number is not even in the same universe as the number of claimed non-citizen voters that the president talked about in his address to the nation earlier this year, or that the Homeland Security Secretary has been talking about, or …
The NPR Politics Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. PBS NewsHour (Oct 6) reported that the DOJ had announced charges against about 100 individuals for voter fraud, mostly noncitizens who falsely claimed citizenship to vote.[3][4]
Supports. A DOJ spokesperson, quoted by Newsweek (Oct 19), said the department charged 112 aliens across 20 states with illegal voting and registration offenses in the prior seven weeks.[5]
Context. The University of Washington analysis (Oct 30) found the DOJ and DHS issued close to 100 press releases, many repeating names and cumulative counts, so the announced totals overstate distinct new cases.[2]
Context. Reuters (Sept 23) counted about 32 charges in four weeks and CNN (Oct 29) reported a broader DHS arrest figure of around 160, which covers administrative arrests as well as criminal cases, so the tallies vary by how cases are counted.[1][6]
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- 1Trump ramps up noncitizen voting prosecutions ahead of midtermsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Tip of the Icecube: How DOJ and DHS Press Releases Turn Rare Allegations of Non-Citizen Voting Into Evidence of Widespread Fraudcip.uw.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Examining the DOJ's effort to prosecute non-citizens accused of votingpbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4DOJ ramps effort to prosecute non-citizens accused of votingthirteen.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Justice department investigating 'thousands' of noncitizen votersnewsweek.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Why Trump's big claims of voter fraud have yielded so few ... - CNNcnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
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