Hundreds of thousands of voters will be purged from the voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon and the Department of Justice discovered that over 260,000 dead people are registered to vote, along with thousands of noncitizens.
“We’ve checked 47.5 million voter records. We found 260,000 plus dead people enrolled in the states’ voter rolls, which is pretty concerning,” Dhillon stated. “There are several thousand non-citizens who are enrolled to vote in federal elections. This is very concerning. And the DOJ is partnering with local law enforcement where appropriate to prosecute people who have unlawfully voted in our elections.”
States hold their own voter registrations and can select not to audit their rolls. The federal government recently sued North Carolina for access to their voting records and plans to expand the search nationwide ,as not everyone is willing to comply. The federal government currently has 14 pending lawsuits against states that do not want fair elections. They’re refusing to provide their records, even though many of these states voluntarily provide their voter rolls to nonprofit groups,” Dhillon continued.
Who is voting on behalf of the dead? Only 19 individuals have been charged in the past decade with casting a vote on behalf of a dead relative but it is unlikely that only 19 people have committed such an act when hundreds of thousands of people are enrolled. It begs the question: why are states preventing the federal government from auditing voter registrations?
States refusing to comply declare it a matter of security and privacy. They claim that the federal agencies should not be able to access information that they already possess—Social Security numbers, personal addresses, licenses, and so forth. Voter groups of advocates pushing a very specific agenda believe that the government will prevent certain groups from voting or unfairly purge eligible voters.
Federal law, including the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and Civil Rights Act of 1960, requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls AND permit the federal government to inspect those rolls. The Democrats running these states are blatantly preventing clean and secure elections while wasting millions in public funds to fight the Trump Administration.