The Justice Department has charged 64 foreign nationals across 17 states with unlawful voting, a federal crackdown that sends a clear warning before next month’s midterms.
Federal prosecutors are moving against noncitizens who cast ballots they had no legal right to cast. Breitbart reported the latest tally after Fox News Digital obtained the figures on Sunday, framing the cases as part of an intensified push on election integrity.
The numbers land with midterms weeks away. Officials are also tightening scrutiny of voter-registration safeguards. The message is straightforward: voting by noncitizens is a federal crime, and the department intends to treat it that way.
Sixty-four foreign nationals now face unlawful-voting charges spread across 17 states. Minnesota leads with 11 cases. Pennsylvania follows with 10. Texas has 9. Louisiana has 5. New Jersey, California, and Florida each have 4.
Those figures sit inside a larger total. The Justice Department has charged 104 people with voting fraud-related offenses since President Trump returned to office in 2025. The cases cover noncitizen voting, fraudulent registration applications, and ballots cast in multiple elections.
A DOJ spokesperson put the stakes in plain terms when speaking to Fox News Digital.
"Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen. In 2020, Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race was decided by six votes,"
the spokesperson said.
That Iowa contest went to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican, over Democrat Rita Hart. Six votes decided a House seat. The department is using that race to show why even small numbers of illegal ballots matter.
The same spokesperson left no ambiguity about the law.
"Voting by noncitizens and other ineligible voters is a federal crime,"
the official said.
"And the department will enforce the law whether a case involves one illegal ballot or hundreds."
Federal prosecutors describe the broader effort as a drive to intensify election-integrity enforcement. Registration systems and eligibility checks are under closer review as November’s contests approach.
Two recent examples illustrate the pattern. In Pennsylvania, prosecutors charged a female Filipino national with voting. In Minnesota, a Ghanaian green-card holder faces allegations that he falsely claimed citizenship and voted in the state’s 2026 primary.
Green-card status does not confer the right to vote in federal elections. Citizenship does. Falsely claiming that status to register or cast a ballot carries heavier exposure under federal law.
The statutory penalties are clear. Voting as a noncitizen in a federal election can bring up to one year in prison, a fine, or both. Falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register or vote can bring up to five years behind bars.
Those are not abstract rules. They are the tools prosecutors are using in the 64 cases now pending across the country.
The timing is deliberate. Midterms arrive next month. Federal officials are pairing the charging wave with sharper attention to how states and localities screen voter rolls and registration forms.
Critics of loose registration practices have long argued that weak safeguards invite abuse. The Justice Department’s current tally gives those concerns concrete numbers: dozens of foreign nationals charged with casting ballots, more than a hundred voting-fraud-related cases since early 2025, and multiple states already showing double-digit defendant counts.
Minnesota’s 11 cases sit at the top of the published list. Pennsylvania’s 10 and Texas’s 9 are close behind. Even states with smaller totals, Louisiana, New Jersey, California, Florida, are part of the same enforcement map.
The department has not released a full public roster of every defendant or docket in the 64-person group. What it has released is the scale, the geographic spread, the offense categories, and the explicit warning that illegal ballots will draw federal charges.
American elections rest on a simple premise: only eligible citizens vote. When a noncitizen casts a ballot, a lawful voter’s choice is diluted by the same amount. In a race decided by six votes, that math is not theoretical.
The Iowa example from 2020 remains the department’s preferred illustration. A handful of improper ballots can change who holds a congressional seat. That is why the spokesperson stressed that the department will act on one illegal ballot or hundreds.
The 104 charging figure since Trump’s return to office in 2025 shows the enforcement pace. Unlawful voting by foreign nationals is one slice of that total. Fraudulent registrations and multi-election ballot schemes make up other pieces. Together they form a sustained federal effort rather than a one-off announcement.
Registration safeguards are now under sharper federal review for the same reason. If ineligible people can get on the rolls, the ballot box becomes harder to defend. The cases in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere are the downstream result of that failure point.
None of this requires new legislation to understand. Existing federal criminal law already bars noncitizen voting and false citizenship claims. The change is in the willingness to charge the cases and publicize the count before a national election.
Voters heading into the midterms now have a documented enforcement record in front of them: 64 foreign nationals charged across 17 states, 104 voting-fraud-related cases since 2025, and a Justice Department that says every illegal vote cancels a lawful one.
Elections only work when the people counting the ballots also guard who gets to cast them. That duty is finally getting federal attention that matches the stakes.
