Federal Indictments for Illegal Voting

Today we are announcing that a federal grand jury returned

indictments against 10

foreign nationals alleged to have committed unlawful voting and registration

offenses in the state of Minnesota.

In total, the grand jury's indictments include nine

counts of illegal voting

by an alien and nine counts of making a false claim of citizen-

citizenship in order to register to vote.

Charges include illegally voting in the general elections of twenty twenty-two,

twenty twenty-four, and the midterm, um, the primary elections of

August of this year, of August twenty twenty6.

The defendants that have been charged include foreign nationals from

Brazil, Ghana, and Liberia.

So we have, we have talked repeatedly about the

importance of election

integrity, and we're, we're certainly not gonna stop talking

about that

now. Voter fraud erodes the public's trust in

our

electoral system, and it's vital to our democratic process

that we do everything that we can to restore that trust.

The most basic way the Department of Justice can accomplish this

restoration of trust is by working to make sure the only people

voting

in an election in the United States are American citizens who are

eligible to vote.