There has been an incident involving illegal voting by noncitizens in Wyoming.
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The NPR Politics PodcastOct 26, 2026
Sources do confirm a real Wyoming case of illegal noncitizen voting: Maksim Shakirov pleaded guilty in federal court to voting as a noncitizen in the 2024 election.
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… And so, generally, I would say, when you look at a thousand election monitors from DOJ going out to elections this year, that probably will not present issues in most of those places, but I think it's a question of, like, could there be isolated incidents, like with the one we've already seen in Wyoming? That's kind of an open question. Yeah, well, I guess this is one of those things where you're just gonna have to stay tuned to see how close this election really is. Let's wait a week. We'll talk again in a week and see where we're at. …
The NPR Politics Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The DOJ U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Wyoming announced that Maksim Sergeevich Shakirov pleaded guilty to one count of voting by an alien in the November 2024 federal election.[1]
Context. Wyoming Public Media and Cowboy State Daily independently report the same Shakirov guilty plea and Secretary of State Chuck Gray's earlier identification of noncitizen registered voters in Wyoming.[3][4]
Context. The passage's Wyoming reference concerns Governor Mark Gordon's objection to aggressive Justice Department monitors during the August 2026 primaries, which the sources describe as a monitoring dispute rather than noncitizen voting.[2][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Non-citizen pleads guilty to unlawful voting in federal electionjustice.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2How some states are responding to DOJ's plan to send 1,000 ...pbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3Uzbekistan man pleads guilty to voting by an alien in 2024wyomingpublicmedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Wyoming Green Card Holder Pleads Guilty To Casting Illegal ...cowboystatedaily.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Wyoming governor objects to ‘very odd’ DOJ election monitoring - The Boston Globebostonglobe.com · not rated · cited for: context
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