The Justice Department has charged 64 foreign nationals across 17 states with unlawful voting, fraudulent voter registration and other election-related offenses over roughly the past five weeks, according to figures provided to Fox News Digital, as federal prosecutors intensify election-integrity enforcement ahead of November's midterm elections.
Minnesota leads the nation with 11 defendants, followed by Pennsylvania with 10 and Texas with nine. Louisiana accounts for five, while New Jersey, California and Florida each have four. The department says it has now charged 104 people with voting fraud-related offenses since President Trump returned to office in 2025.
The cases involve allegations ranging from fraudulent registration applications to ballots cast in multiple elections. Federal prosecutors are also securing guilty pleas in some matters, including against Evelyn Miller of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, a Filipino national who pleaded guilty to illegally voting in the 2024 presidential election. She faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
«We intend to prosecute anyone who corrupts our democracy by illegally voting in its elections,» said David Metcalf, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Also in Pennsylvania, prosecutors charged Haitian national Cliff Sanon with submitting a fraudulent voter registration application in Philadelphia County. Authorities allege he submitted eight registration applications and voted in the November 2022 election.
In Minnesota, Ghanaian green card holder Joshua Kofi Edzie was charged with illegally voting in the state's August 2026 primary and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship in connection with voter registration.
The prosecutions have reached Republican-led states as well, including Texas, Louisiana and Florida, which together account for 18 defendants in the department's tally. In Louisiana, federal authorities indicted Bridget Johnson, a former mayoral candidate who ran in 2024 to lead Cotton Valley, on a charge of voting by an alien. She allegedly submitted a registration in the name of Jamaican national Michael Wedderburn and falsely swore he was a citizen. Wedderburn then allegedly voted illegally in 2024 for president and mayor and was also recently indicted.
A Justice Department spokesperson framed the enforcement effort around the narrow margins that can decide American elections. «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, referring to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' narrow victory over Democrat Rita Hart.
The department said federal prosecutors are bringing more than twice as many election-fraud cases each week as the six-vote margin in that Iowa race. «Voting by noncitizens and other ineligible voters is a federal crime, and the department will enforce the law whether a case involves one illegal ballot or hundreds,» the spokesperson added.
The crackdown comes as federal officials intensify scrutiny of voter-registration safeguards before the midterms, with recent elections underscoring how even a few illegal ballots can exceed the margin separating candidates. Authorities have not established that any of the cases identified in the nationwide tally changed the outcome of an election.
In New Jersey, Republicans have pointed to several razor-thin elections amid a separate controversy involving approximately 6,600 people who indicated they were not citizens but were erroneously registered through the state's Motor Vehicle Commission. Fewer than 400 subsequently voted, according to Gov. Mikie Sherrill's administration. Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac recently highlighted municipal elections in Caldwell, Atlantic Highlands and Bogota decided by margins of four to six votes in 2023.
The state has not established that any of the affected voters changed an election outcome. Sherrill spokesman Sean Higgins previously said the governor «moved with transparency and accountability to remediate this error from 2023.»