DOJ Voter Roll Review Uncovers Shocking Findings

The Justice Department has identified tens of thousands of noncitizens and hundreds of thousands of deceased individuals listed on voter rolls across the country, according to Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Speaking in a recent interview on “Just the News, No Noise,” Dhillon revealed the scope of what federal investigators have uncovered so far: “We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and duplicate registrations between states,” she said.

The findings stem from a review of records voluntarily provided by 16 Republican-leaning states, including Florida and Texas.

The administration is simultaneously pursuing legal action against 29 states that have resisted handing over their election data. Those lawsuits argue that states are obligated under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to maintain accurate, up-to-date voter registration lists: purging records of deceased individuals and those who no longer reside in the jurisdictions where they are registered.

The DOJ’s push comes alongside a string of prosecutions targeting noncitizens accused of casting illegal ballots. Among the most recent cases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI announced the arrest of Mahady Sacko, an illegal immigrant from Mauritania, on voter fraud charges in Philadelphia.

Authorities allege Sacko had been voting illegally since 2008, despite a removal order upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals more than two decades ago in November 2002.

In a separate case last December, Joe Ceballos stepped down as mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, following his arrest on charges of voting multiple times as a non-citizen. Ceballos, a legal permanent resident from Mexico, allegedly cast ballots in multiple elections and now faces both state charges and federal removal proceedings.

The legal foundation for the DOJ’s records requests rests on the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which the administration argues grants federal authorities the right to access and review election records. The lawsuits span both red and blue states, targeting Democrat-heavy states such as California, New York, and New Jersey, as well as key battleground states including Arizona and Georgia, and more recently Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

“It’s really frustrating that we’re being prevented from doing our job,” Dhillon said.

However, election integrity advocates caution that obtaining the data is only half the battle. J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and a former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney, noted that courts have already limited the government’s ability to force states to act on what the records reveal.

“It’s decades-old news,” Adams said of dead voters and noncitizens appearing on voter rolls. “Good luck doing anything about it.”

Adams pointed to rulings by both the 6th and 11th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, which held that states cannot be compelled to purge their rolls as long as they are making some effort toward compliance, a standard the Supreme Court declined to revisit. “It’s one thing to get data,” Adams said, “it’s another thing to enforce cleaning up the rolls.”

The Justice Department had not responded to requests for additional detail on the total number of ineligible registrations identified by publication time.

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