Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon is sounding the alarm over what she describes as widespread problems with Americas voter rolls, including tens of thousands of non-citizens and hundreds of thousands of deceased individuals still listed as eligible voters.
In a recent appearance on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures, Dhillon told host Maria Bartiromo that federal officials have uncovered serious irregularities as they work to enforce long-standing election laws, according to Western Journal. The Trump administration has filed lawsuits against multiple states that have refused to provide voter registration data to the Department of Justice, which is attempting to verify compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and other federal statutes designed to safeguard the integrity of the ballot box.
Dhillon explained that even states attempting to follow the law are discovering significant problems once their voter rolls are scrutinized. 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 stressed that these findings directly contradict the narrative long promoted by Democrats and progressive activists that illegal voting by non-citizens is essentially nonexistent. 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. 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. 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.
From Dhillons perspective, such state-level policies invite abuse and undermine confidence in elections by making it easier for ineligible individuals to slip through the cracks. She argued that federal law is clear about the need for accurate, verifiable voter rolls and that the Justice Department has both the authority and the obligation to enforce those requirements.
Despite that, Dhillon said, a significant number of states are refusing to cooperate even when federal statutes explicitly grant access to their records. 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, Dhillon told Bartiromo, later adding that, in several cases, federal judges ruled against the Trump administration.
Those adverse rulings have not deterred the administration, which is pushing ahead with appeals in key circuits that have often leaned left on election-related disputes. 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 broader effort is reinforced by President Donald Trumps March 2025 executive order directing the federal governments Election Assistance Commission to revise the national voter registration form to require proof of citizenship. For conservatives, that move represents a long-overdue step toward ensuring that only American citizens decide American elections, while critics on the left continue to resist virtually any measure that tightens verification of voter eligibility.
As Dhillons lawsuits advance and more data are examined, the clash between those who prioritize ballot security and those who dismiss concerns over non-citizen voting is likely to intensify, with the integrity of the nations electoral system squarely at stake.
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