Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon warned that federal reviews of state voter rolls have already uncovered widespread irregularities involving dead registrants and apparent non-citizens, underscoring what she described as a systemic failure to safeguard Americas elections.
According to the Daily Caller, Dhillon outlined the scope of the problem during an appearance on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, explaining that the Trump administration has taken multiple states to court for refusing to provide voter registration data. Those lawsuits seek to enforce longstanding federal statutes, including the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, which require states to maintain accurate rolls and protect the integrity of the ballot.
Dhillon said that even states attempting to follow the law are falling short once federal officials begin scrutinizing their records. States are not in compliance, even those ones who want to. So, for the ones that weve run so far 60 million records that weve run we found at least 350,000 dead people currently on the voter rolls in those jurisdictions, and weve referred approximately 25,000 people with no citizenship records to [the Department of] Homeland Security to look at, you know, dig into that further and see the extent to which people voted, Dhillon told Bartiromo.
She added that grassroots watchdogs are independently surfacing troubling evidence that undercuts years of Democratic talking points dismissing election fraud concerns. Im in touch with voting rights activists who are showing me information about people who have voted who are not American citizens. So the Left told us this never happens and its a myth, it definitely happened.
Dhillon pointed to a recent criminal case in the Upper Midwest as a concrete example of the problem that critics on the Left insist does not exist. Just recently, someone was indicted in Minnesota, of all places, for voting without being a citizen, and so Ive sent a document request to them on that, Dhillon continued.
She sharply criticized Minnesotas permissive rules, arguing they clash with federal safeguards designed to protect the ballot from abuse. Minnesota has a weird vouching law that allows citizens to vouch for each others citizenship. Thats crazy and inconsistent with the Help America Vote Act and were not going to rest until we complete this project.
Despite clear statutory authority dating back more than six decades, Dhillon said many states are stonewalling federal oversight. Im suing 29 states and the District of Columbia for their refusal to give us the voter rolls to which the attorney general or the acting attorney general is entitled under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, she told Bartiromo, noting that some federal judges have sided against the administration.
Were expediting the appeals in these cases, Dhillon said. Therell be an appeal in the Ninth Circuit [Court of Appeals] and the Sixth Circuit soon.
The legal battles unfold as President Trump moves to tighten election procedures nationwide, including a March 2025 executive order directing the Election Assistance Commission to require proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms. With tens of thousands of questionable registrations already flagged and more litigation on the horizon, the administration is signaling that election integrityand the principle that only American citizens should decide American electionswill remain a central priority.
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