The Department of Justice on Friday announced charges against five individuals for illegally voting or helping someone illegally register to vote in the 2022 and 2024 elections in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. The case includes two people whom federal prosecutors identify as illegal immigrants, two other noncitizens, and one…
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DOJ subpoenas Nevada's election office seven times to prosecute five voters nationwide.
As it ran on the front
Start with the paperwork, because the paperwork is the story. Cisco Aguilar, Nevada's Secretary of State, told the Washington Examiner on Friday that his office has received seven Justice Department subpoenas over voter-related matters in the last three months. Seven. Not seven states, seven filings to one office in one battleground state, arriving faster than anyone in that office could plausibly process them, let alone answer them.
Now put the other number next to it. That same Friday, the DOJ announced its harvest from this national effort: five people charged, total, across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, for votes cast in 2022 and 2024. Two identified as immigrants living here illegally, two other noncitizens, and one U.S. citizen accused of helping someone register. Five defendants. Seven subpoenas to one state alone. The arithmetic was never supposed to survive contact with itself, and it doesn't.…
…(cont) It didn't start Friday, either. Back on September 2, the Times reported the DHS had hundreds of agents combing state voter rolls under a program called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, hunting noncitizens who mostly weren't there. In August, the Supreme Court let stand an executive order letting DHS build state-by-state citizen lists for the Postal Service to screen mail ballots. And New Jersey got a preview of the subpoena treatment weeks earlier, when Governor Sherrill's answer to a voter-roll inquiry was called "snarky" by a member of Congress, followed by an RNC letter putting the state "on notice" with a September 15 deadline. The infrastructure was built before the crime was found.
So Friday's actual news wasn't the five prosecutions. It was the video. Homeland Security Investigations released footage of agents arresting a defendant at a Harrisburg apartment, and Fox ran it as exclusive battleground-state footage, timed to a midterm still two months out. A subpoena is quiet. An arrest video is not. The Department chose, on the same day it announced five cases nationwide, to make sure the cameras caught one of them in a state that decides elections.
Same day, the Times reported DHS is now pushing for inquiries into the voting machines themselves — the ones election experts already say are safe. So the count, as of Friday: seven subpoenas to Nevada, hundreds of agents nationwide, one federal order on mail ballots, one push into the machines, and five people charged. The prosecutions are the smallest number in the story. Everything built around them is bigger, louder, and arrives faster than the courts do.
“Seven subpoenas to find five people — that's not a fraud investigation, that's a fishing trip with a press release attached. They already built the machine, the agent army, the mail-ballot lists, before they had a crime, and now they're renting out the camera crew to make five cases look like a wave. Your vote's the target here, not the con man's — that's the wallet part.”
“Look, seven subpoenas sounds like a lot until you remember Nevada's Secretary of State runs an entire statewide election apparatus, okay, so proportionally that's — no, that's still seven subpoenas for a caseload of five people nationwide, I see the number too. The point is deterrence, the cameras aren't for show, they're for — okay they're also for show, HSI released the footage themselves, Fox got it exclusive, that's a choice somebody made on purpose. But the machines could still be hacked! The election experts say they're safe, I read that in the same article, forget I said that.”
The receipts
Exclusive footage obtained by Fox News shows HSI agents executing arrests as the Trump administration ramps up a nationwide crackdown on non-citizen voting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court’s injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. Trump’s order directs the Department of Homeland Security to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters who are citizens. The U.S.
Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar accused the Trump administration on Friday of flooding election offices with demands ahead of November after his office confirmed it received seven voter-related Justice Department subpoenas over the “last three months.” “The right to vote is written clearly in the constitution, and we…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday announced that federal prosecutors brought five voter fraud cases this week and released video of Homeland Security Investigations agents arresting a defendant at an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The New York Times' Wednesday reporting on a US Department of Homeland Security "blitz to find elusive voter fraud" by noncitizens is heightening fears that President Donald Trump will try to meddle in the country's midterm elections, which are just over two months away. The newspaper revealed that as part of a "hunt for noncitizens…
Critics of ballot-marking devices have claimed that hackers could manipulate digital codes on ballots. Election experts say the systems are safe to use.
· Republicans tighten screws on Sherrill as noncitizen voter probe enters new phase from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· RNC threatens legal action against New Jersey officials over noncitizens on voter rolls: 'On notice' from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.