A Chinese saying: “Lots of noise, no one coming downstairs.”

Asserting there is a problem

In March 2025, the Trump administration in an Executive Order put election integrity on the front burner.  True the Vote echoes the Executive Order without making any allegations of non-citizen voting. The Public Interest Legal Foundation claims that foreign national voting is a serious issue but does not provide any evidence that non-citizens are voting.

Asserting it is a vanishingly small problem

Two national organizations have systematically studied election fraud and in particular non-citizen voting and found negligable instances.

The Center for Election Innovation and Research found that even the largest claims never allege numbers that amount to more than a few tenths of a percent of the number of eligible voters in a state.

The Brennan Center, which studied and concluded that non-citizen voting is vanishingly scarce, has issued guidelines for ensuring to integrity of voting processes overall.

The campaign to root out non-citizen voting

DoJ  sent invites to state election officials that would allow them to upload voter data on a mass scale — including full name, date of birth and social security numbers — to check for anyone who was not a citizen on their voter rolls. The administration has also, for the first time, brought in data from the Social Security Administration that had previously been kept separate. (Go here.)

At least 14 states — all with Republican secretaries of state — publicly indicated in 2025 that they would use the revamped D.H.S. system to upload voter information, according to an analysis of public statements, records and interviews with people involved.

In September 2025 the DoJ sued six states for failing to hand over voter list.

Eleven Democratic secretaries of state wrote a letter to D.H.S. in December, raising alarms about the potential impact on eligible voters, warning that the expanded version of SAVE “will introduce unnecessary and unwarranted reliability, privacy and security issues into the sensitive voter information data we are entrusted to protect.”

Many Democratic states have also refused to provide similar information to the DoJ, which is suing at least 24 states that have refused to turn over data.

Florida

In Charlotte County, Fla., for instance, the elections supervisor Leah Valenti, an appointee of Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor, said she found that just 15 out of 176,000 names she uploaded to D.H.S. came back as noncitizens. Of those, she found that three were people mistakenly added to the rolls who never intended to register to vote; they have since been removed. Two others already sent in documentation to prove their naturalized citizenship, she said.

 

 

Louisiana

In Louisiana, the system found 403 noncitizens out of 3 million registered voters, or .01 percent, with 83 having voted, according to a November memo obtained by The Times through a public records request.

Georgia

The search found 1,634 individuals who had attempted to register to vote in Georgia despite not being citizens. None of these individuals have cast ballots in Georgia elections.

Assume that 85% of the non-naturalized foreign born are adults, or 510,000 persons, This means that 0.3% attempted to register to vote.  however, is it very likely that some of these persons had incorrectly labeled themselves as non-citizens in their drivers license forms. Databases do not match 100% each other and the facts in the ground.

Ohio

There are approximately 8 million registered voters in Ohio.  This means that one of out 13,000 registered voters were deemed by the state as being non-citizens.

Texas

David Simcox, former executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, released a study Tuesday afternoon that said an estimated 1.8 million to 2.7 million non-citizen immigrants in the Unites States may be illegally registered to vote, thereby potentially influencing the outcome of the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. The report also estimated that anywhere from 161,000 to 333,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote in Texas.

In August, 2024, Governor Greg Abbott announced that since 2021 the state has found on voter rolls 6,500 non-citizens, of whom 1,930 non-citizens had a voting history.  6.500 is of the current total of 18 million registered voters, three one hundredths of one percent, or one per 2800 registered voters. It is very unlikely that most of these 6,500 are in fact non-citizens, if the state’s earlier misadventure and that of other states are a guide.

Virginia

In August 2024, Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order directing state agencies to identify and cancel voter registrations of people flagged as non-citizens in DMV data. That effort led to about 6,303 registrations being canceled because those individuals were identified in DMV records as non-citizens. 6,370,342 people were registered to vote in Virginia as of December 1, 2025 .

Common finding: non-citizens mistakenly note on driver license applications that they are citizens and citizens fail to record that they are citizens.

Nevada

A statewide audit released in 2017 found that only three noncitizens had voted in Nevada’s 2016 election.