DOJ Charges 10 Foreigners With Illegally Voting In Minnesota

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have obtained grand jury indictments against ten foreign nationals who allegedly voted, or lied about being citizens in order to register, in the state's elections. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota made the separate cases public Wednesday; they were returned September 24. PJ Media reports that all ten are lawful permanent residents, with origins in Liberia, Lithuania, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada and South Africa, according to Daily Caller.

The conduct at issue stretches from the 2022 and 2024 general elections to this year's August primary, in which a Ghanaian national is accused of casting a ballot. Falsely claiming citizenship carries as much as five years in prison, whereas a noncitizen voting is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year. Each defendant is presumed innocent.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said enforcement is fundamental to democracy, and put the department's Trump-era total at over 90 cases, with 50 coming in the last five weeks. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, said the cases show noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare, set against roughly 8.5 million ballots cast.

Summarized by PolitiKool from Daily Caller’s reporting. Read the full story at Daily Caller →