New Jersey is one of 30 states the Department of Justice has sued for refusing to turn over voter rolls to be 'cross-checked effectively for improper registrations.'
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DOJ announces sixth voter-fraud crisis this month, each one called the first of its kind.
As it ran on the front
Ten people in Minnesota, charged with voting as noncitizens or lying about citizenship to register — and if that sounds like the same sentence you read three weeks ago, it is, except for the names and the state. Proves the pattern, is the honest word for it, though "pattern" is not what gets said at the podium.
Start where the Times did, on September 2: a Department of Homeland Security operation called, internally, the Unlawful Voter Initiative, hundreds of agents combing state voter rolls two months before the midterms. Two days later, the first charges landed — five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin, accused of voting or helping someone vote in 2022 and 2024. Sixteen more followed on September 20, eight of them in Texas alone. Two more came out of New Jersey on September 28, attached to a bigger number this time: 6,600 noncitizens the department says it found on the state's rolls, one of thirty states it is now suing for its voter lists. Call that three rounds before Minnesota's — no, four, counting what the Guardian had it at Wednesday: the sixth announcement of this kind this month, which means at least one more happened that never made it into this column at all. That is not a cover-up. That is just how many there have been.…
…(cont) Voting, the Daily Caller quoted the department saying, is a privilege of American citizenship. Also true. Also five people, then sixteen, then two, then ten — thirty-three names across four weeks, which the podium keeps describing as evidence the system is under assault, when the arithmetic is the evidence of how the podium works. The next round is already being drafted. It will also, somehow, be the first time this has ever happened.
“Six press conferences, same script, different names — they're not finding a crisis, they're refilling one on a schedule so the midterm story keeps running. Thirty-three people total, and nobody at that podium mentions the number wouldn't move a single town election, let alone the country. The crisis isn't on the ballot. It's on the calendar.”
“Look, every single one of these is a separate case, totally separate, filed by career prosecutors who just happen to time it — no, that's not what I meant, strike the timing part. They're protecting the integrity of the vote, that's the story, not the calendar. Six announcements, six crimes, that's not a pattern, that's enforcement, and if it lines up with election season that's because elections are when people vote, which is when voting crimes happen, obviously.”
The receipts
‘Voting in American elections is a privilege of American citizenship’
The charges are senior officials’ latest attempt to heighten voter fraud concerns amid midterm election campaigning US politics live – latest updates The US Department of Justice indicted another 10 individuals on noncitizen voting-related charges on Wednesday as Donald Trump ’s administration continues to pursue allegations of voter…
· DOJ charges illegal voters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Justice Department charges 16 across multiple states with alleged illegal voting, election crimes from the morgue, 20 Sep 2026
· Trump 'Laying the Groundwork for Election Meddling' With DHS Hunt for Noncitizen Voters from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
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