Secure Elections? Feds, Watchdog Found Over 6 Million Illicit Votes on US Rolls

More evidence that we need to pass the SAVE America Act.

This midterm election year, election integrity is a hot-button issue, with President Donald Trump and the Republicans pushing the SAVE Act for securing our elections and Democrats frantically working to protect their centuries-old fraud apparatus. And you won’t believe how many illegal votes the Trump administration and a judicial watchdog have uncovered just in a few states – enough to delegitimize contested elections of the past few years.

Indeed, using numbers released by the Justice Department, the Homeland Security Department, and Judicial Watch, the feds and watchdogs have identified at least 6.38 million illegal aliens’, dead people’s, and other illicit names on voter rolls across the USA.

Staggering Numbers

Before I dive into breaking down the numbers of illicit names found on voter rolls, I want to start with the key context of why even a few thousand votes can be so influential. The 2020 election, particularly in terms of its presidential results, is the primary example in most people’s minds when looking at voter fraud, though 2022 also saw fraud and Democrats have been cheating in elections since at least the late 1800s. To give just one illustration with numbers, if we look at Georgia, one of Joe Biden’s key “wins” for 2020, we find he "won" by only about 12,000 votes. Since then, investigations—including by the federal government—have uncovered nearly 18,000 likely fraudulent votes in just one Georgia county, Fulton. In Wisconsin, which went for Trump in both 2016 and 2024, Joe Biden supposedly won in 2020 by about 20,600 votes.

In perennially fraud-plagued Arizona, the 2020 margin for Joe Biden was fewer than 10,500. Speaking of Arizona, Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs "won" the 2022 race against Republican Kari Lake by just over 17,000 votes. In a controversial 2022 Nevada Senate race, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto beat Republican Adam Laxalt by fewer than 8,000 votes. And back in 2021, Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy beat Republican Jack Ciatarelli by fewer than 85,000 votes. We do not know for certain that all of these elections should have gone to the “losers,” but we do know that they were all hotly contested after evidence of election-tampering, and that the margins of victory for the Democrats were slim. That is precisely why the Republican effort to clean dead voters and illegal aliens or duplicate names off voter rolls is so incredibly important—because we genuinely do not know how many vitally important elections’ results have been determined by fraud. And the very fact that Democrats are so frenziedly opposed to the SAVE America Act, which merely requires proof of citizenship to vote, tells us that they know they’d be losing more elections if not for fraud.

Two federal agencies that have particularly focused on election integrity since the second Trump administration took office are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). In an April 22 press release, DHS announced the conviction of Mexican illegal alien Jose Ceballos, who repeatedly voted in U.S. elections while falsely claiming U.S. citizenship, and then filed for citizenship while lying about his previous record. Fortunately, the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program helps agencies verify immigration status before granting benefits or voter verification. But the most interesting part of the press release was the following paragraph:

Since April 2025, more than 24,000 cases have been identified by SAVE as potential non-U.S. citizens who were on voter rolls, and those cases have been referred to ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for further investigation. Over the past year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has overhauled the SAVE program, making it fully operational and providing states with an easy-to-use tool that has resulted in over 60 million voter verification queries processed since April 2025.

Now, DHS did not state how many of the 24,000 cases are closed, but the very fact that DHS identified that many potential non-citizen voters is concerning, especially since Democrats keep assuring us illegal aliens absolutely don’t vote in our elections.

Department of Justice Gets Involved

The DOJ uncovered much more than that, and just from reviewing the rolls in fewer than half of our 50 states. Almost 30 states and the District of Columbia are fighting DOJ Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon as she seeks to review voter data. Dhillon told Fox Business in April, "I'm 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." Just off the rolls they've obtained so far, "60 million records that we've run, we found at least 350,000 dead people currently on the voter rolls in those jurisdictions. And we've referred approximately 25,000 people with no citizenship records to Homeland Security.” It is not clear if the approximately 25,000 votes she mentioned are the same as the 24,000 DHS mentioned.

Dhillon added, “the left told us this [illegals voting] never happens, and it's a myth. It definitely happened." And that total of 375,000 illicit voters possibly just went up, because the North Carolina State Board of Elections just completed an investigation of their voter rolls that uncovered 34,000 dead people’s names on the rolls. Dhillon highlighted the story. Sam Hayes, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections, confessed, “While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated.”

Even the 375,000 total is dwarfed by the number of illicit votes that watchdog group Judicial Watch has identified in recent years. On April 8, Judicial Watch announced it had reached a settlement in its lawsuit against the state of Colorado, requiring the removal of 372,000 ineligible voter names from the blue state’s rolls. That’s just a single Democrat-run state.

On April 20, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the most staggering announcement of all: “Over 6 MILLION names have been removed from the voter rolls thanks to Judicial Watch’s lawsuits. Oregon announced they were removing over 800k names from the voting rolls, and Colorado removed 372k names.”

Combining all the totals, between 6,375,000 and 6,399,000 illicit voters have been exposed in the last few years, with more states yet to investigate. 

Joe Biden allegedly won the 2020 election by around seven million votes. It’s certainly food for thought, isn’t it?

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