DOJ Targeting Noncitizen Voting in Voter Rolls ‘Crackdown’

The Trump Justice Department has launched a nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections, pushing states to purge duplicate and outdated registrations and catch any non-citizens or illegal aliens who slipped into a position to vote, officials told Just the News on Saturday.

Notifications have gone out to several states and localities that DOJ's Civil Rights Division has been concerned that states aren't complying with federal laws, including California, Wisconsin, Utah and New Hampshire.

The new DOJ effort, officials said, will focus on pressuring states with poor voter roll hygiene to comply with existing law and remove outdated, duplicated and non-citizen registrations. It is being led by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.

She notified the Wisconsin Election Commission that it was not in compliance with the Helping Americans Vote Act (HAVA), specifically for failing to set up a system to field and resolve voter complaints about election integrity.

"Quite surprisingly, we have learned that the Wisconsin Elections Commission has refused to provide any administrative complaint process or hearing regarding HAVA complaints against the Commission," Dhillon wrote. "Rather, Wisconsin has decided to rely on a 2022 state court case opining that the Commission cannot police itself..

"These very actions by the Commission have left complainants alleging HAVA violations by the Commission without any recourse," she added. "...With no opportunity or means to appeal, complainants are left stranded with their grievances."

Similarly, DOJ recently sent a demand to Orange County, Calif., seeking thr identities of any illegal aliens who made it on voter rolls. The county has resisted and DOJ has now sued to force compliance.