Top DOJ prosecutor says tens of thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls, dozens illegally voted

The top Justice Department prosecutor for civil liberties and voting rights tells Just the News that her ongoing review of state voter rolls has proven tens of thousands of noncitizens made it into a position to cast ballots and that hundreds of thousands of dead or departed residents were not properly removed from state election systems.

"It's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our job," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said Tuesday night, criticizing state election offices and federal judges who are blocking her office from her historic effort to obtain and review every state's voter roll ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Dhillon gave an early accounting of the initiative, disclosing during a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show that 16 states have turned over their voter rolls to DOJ or signed memorandum of understanding to provide the data while 29 are facing litigation to compel them to turn over the lists.

"We want every American citizen to feel confident in voting and feel confident in the outcome of that election, and that is why we're undertaking this massive project," she explained.

While having access to less than half the state's election databases, Dhillon said she has already found deeply disturbing statistics that are only bound to get worse as more states are forced to comply.

"We're finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and duplicate registrations between states," she said.

Earlier this month, DOJ announced it had indicted an illegal alien from Africa for illegally voting in seven federal elections in Pennsylvania. Federal law prohibits foreigners from voting in federal elections.

Mahady Sacko, who came to the United States illegally from Mauritania, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and the FBI in Philadelphia. He has been charged with voter fraud, officials said.

“This criminal illegal alien committed a felony by voting in federal elections dating back to 2008. Illegal aliens should NOT be electing American leaders,” Deputy Assistant Homeland Secretary Lauren Bis said. “Our elections belong to American citizens, not foreign citizens. Congress must pass the SAVE America Act immediately to secure our elections.”

Dhillon revealed there are dozens more noncitizens who DOJ has confirmed voted illegally, but those cases have not yet been prosecuted because the U.S. Senate has not confirmed U.S. attorneys in many jurisdictions.

"For every person that we've seen a story about, I know of dozens and dozens more cases, and U.S. attorney's offices are wanting to bring these cases, but we have, of course, interference with the very appointment of these U.S. attorneys at the political level," she explained. "So that's above my pay grade, but it's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our job.

Dhillon said there are two reasons why states aren't turning over voter rolls: some simply don't want the DOJ to review their work and others are afraid of being sued by Democrat voting rights lawyers like Marc Elias or future Democratic presidential administrations.

"You may ask, why don't states clean it up themselves? Well, sometimes it's just inefficiency, but more times it's actually states wanting to clean up their voter rolls, and the Marc Elias's of the world and even the DOJ (under Biden) are suing them to stop them from cleaning up their own voter rolls," she said. 

"And so, you know, I don't blame states, in a way, because it's whiplash. You know, suddenly the federal government is saying, 'Please do your jobs.' A year ago, they were saying, 'Don't do your jobs,'" she explained.