Harmeet Dhillon reveals 260K dead found on voter rolls, thousands more ‘non-citizens’

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division revealed on Friday that she’s been busy removing dead people and noncitizens from America’s voting rolls.

“We’ve checked 47.5 million voter records,” she said in a video published to the social media platform X. “We found 260,000 plus dead people enrolled in the states’ voter rolls, which is pretty concerning. They’re gonna be removed with the help of the DOJ.”

“There are several thousand non-citizens who are enrolled to vote in federal elections. This is very concerning. And the DOJ is partnering with local law enforcement where appropriate to prosecute people who have unlawfully voted in our elections,” she added.

To clean up America’s voting rolls, Dhillon has been demanding that states turn over their rolls to the feds for review. Only a handful of states have complied.

“Four states complied voluntarily,” Dhillon revealed. “We sued North Carolina early on, and they are checking the voter records of 100,000 voters who were improperly enrolled on their voter rolls, and they’re going to fix their problem voluntarily.”

“We have an agreement in place almost with another dozen states, and I expect very soon we’ll be looking at their voter data and comparing it with our records and helping them clean up those voter rolls,” she added.

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The remainder of the states are being sued into complying.

On Tuesday, Dhillon’s department announced lawsuits against six additional states — Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

“Our federal elections laws ensure every American citizen may vote freely and fairly,” Dhillon said in a separate statement. “States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results.”

In the video posted to social media on Tuesday, Dhillon stressed that she intends to stay on this until every voter roll is fixed.

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“Even one person voting who shouldn’t have voted is one too many because every citizen is entitled to one person, one vote assumption that their vote is being counted equally and only with other American citizens,” she said.

“We will not rest at this DOJ with the leadership of the attorney general, Pam Bondi, until we complete this project and provide confidence to all American voters that the roles are clean and the elections are free and fair!” she concluded.

Dhillon has faced increasing pushback from states like Washington, which is a state bluer than the sky.

In a letter sent to Dhillon Sept. 23, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs refused to hand over the state’s voter database. He cited state-level laws that protect personal information from public disclosure.

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Dhillon’s suit against Washington, “filed in the U.S. District Court for Western Washington, argues Hobbs’ refusal to hand over the complete voter database is illegal because the federal government has ‘sweeping power’ under the Civil Rights Act to obtain such information,” according to the The Seattle Times.

“The unredacted records are needed ‘to assess Washington’s compliance’ with federal election laws, including requirements that states take ‘a reasonable effort’ to ensure ineligible voters — such as dead people — are removed from voter rolls, according to the DOJ complaint,” the Times notes.

“Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement accompanying Tuesday’s suit.

Vivek Saxena

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