The Justice Department said on Monday, November 2, 2026 — one day before polls open for the midterm elections — that federal prosecutors have charged 63 people with election-related crimes, among them four people the Department described as illegal aliens.
"Today's announcement marks the largest surge of voter-fraud arrests since President Trump returned to office," Attorney General Todd Blanche said in the Department's statement, adding that the Department would continue investigating and prosecuting voter fraud to restore confidence in the electoral system.
The charges
The counts cover voting by noncitizens in federal elections, false claims of U.S. citizenship in order to register or vote, fraudulent voter registration in a second state, false statements on naturalization applications and attempting to procure U.S. citizenship unlawfully.
The cases were filed in federal districts across 15 states: Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.
The running totals
The Department said 195 noncitizens in 25 states have been charged with illegal voting and registration violations in the last nine weeks, and that 239 people have been charged with election-fraud-related crimes since the start of the current administration.
That second figure has moved quickly. In mid-October, the Department told Fox News Digital that 104 people had been charged with voting-fraud offenses since 2025 — meaning the announced total has more than doubled in roughly three weeks, as a series of similar announcements landed through the closing stretch of the campaign.
The individual cases
In the Eastern District of North Carolina, nine noncitizens were charged. Prosecutors allege one of them registered to vote in 2008 and went on to cast ballots in nine general elections and nine primaries. Four more people were charged in the Western District of North Carolina, including defendants accused of voting in the November 2024 election after falsely claiming citizenship. In the Central District of California, six people were charged with making false statements on naturalization applications.
In Georgia, Benito Covarrubias Iniguez, 64, a Mexican national, appeared before a magistrate judge in Gainesville on Monday. According to U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg, he entered the country from Mexico in 2000, obtained a passport in the name of a U.S. citizen, and used it to get a Georgia driver's license, register to vote and cast a ballot in the November 5, 2024, general election. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that he is the fourth noncitizen charged with voting in a federal contest in that district since September.
In the District of New Mexico, Robert Glenn Johnson, of Annapolis, Maryland, was charged with submitting a New Mexico voter registration that falsely claimed he lived in the state.
What has not been established
The Department's release states that the charging documents are allegations only, and that every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. None of the cases has been shown to have changed the outcome of an election, and officials have not released polling locations or ballot details for all 63 defendants.
The numbers are also small against the scale of American voting. The Department's 239 charges since 2025 cover five years of elections in a country where tens of millions of ballots are cast in a single midterm cycle — a point that cuts both ways in the argument the announcement enters, since prosecutors say each illegal ballot cancels a lawful one, while the totals do not describe a pattern large enough to decide a federal race.
Reporting from the U.S. Department of Justice, FOX 5 Atlanta and Fox News Digital.
