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Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026The Department of Justice identified at least 400 non-citizens voting in Washington state elections.The DOJ did announce that it identified about 405 people (more than 400) it says are non-citizens who registered and voted in Washington, as of 2026-10-27. However, Secretary of State Steve Hobbs called the federal list unreliable and said a preliminary review found it included U.S. citizens, so the claim that these 400+ people were in fact non-citizens voting is disputed.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Sukil Peterson lost to Dave Updegrove by 51 votes in the August 2024 Washington Commissioner of Public Lands primary election.Said by AThe 51-vote margin between Dave Upthegrove and the third-place Republican in the August 6, 2024 Washington Commissioner of Public Lands primary is confirmed by the Secretary of State, but that Republican was Sue Kuehl Pederson, not Sukil Peterson, so the claim's name is contradicted by the sources. The claim also departs from the passage only in the spelling 'Updegrove' versus the sources' 'Upthegrove', which is minor. The 51-vote figure refers to the initial primary count; a later hand recount changed the margin to 49 per Wikipedia.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026The Department of Justice compiled a list of non-citizens who registered to vote in Washington state, and ballots have been turned in under their names approximately 1,500 times.The DOJ did compile and send Washington a list of 400+ people it says are non-citizens registered to vote, and it claimed about 1,500 votes cast by them, so those parts are supported as the DOJ's own assertions. However, Secretary of State Hobbs contradicted the list's reliability, stating it includes U.S. citizens, so the claim that these are definitively non-citizens whose ballots were cast 1,500 times is disputed; as of 2026-10-27 the figures were the DOJ's allegations, not established facts.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026The U.S. Attorney's Office identified 405 non-citizens who voted in Washington state elections.Said by AThe U.S. Attorney's Office did publicly announce that it identified 405 people (about 400+ in its press release) who it said were non-citizens who voted in Washington elections, so the act of identification is supported. However, Secretary of State Steve Hobbs contests the list, saying a preliminary review found it includes U.S. citizens and people who are inactive or not currently registered, and the office admitted it lacks official voting records and has filed no charges, so the non-citizen and voting status is disputed.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence10 sourcesOct 27, 2026The Department of Justice identified 405 non-citizens who are registered to vote in Washington state.The sources confirm that DOJ prosecutors announced a list of 405 people they said were non-citizens registered and voting in Washington, so the identification itself is supported. However, Secretary of State Steve Hobbs's preliminary review found the list includes U.S. citizens and people who are inactive or not currently registered, which contradicts the claim that all 405 are non-citizens who are registered. The claim is also taken as of 2026-10-27, and later coverage (Oct 28-30) of Hobbs's rejection does not change what DOJ announced that day.