In addition, the electoral prosecutor gave the states a deadline of five days and will send observers to the districts where irregularities were detected
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The Trump Justice Department warned the 50 governors of the country that their election officials could face criminal charges if they deliberately allow undocumented immigrants to vote in the upcoming elections.
The Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights, Harmeet Dhillon, the top official in charge of enforcing election laws within the Department, sent the letters on Tuesday after an investigation uncovered that tens of thousands of non-citizens are registered in state voter rolls. She also prosecuted a handful of foreigners who illegally voted in federal elections, including an Australian citizen.
Dhillon's letters give states a five-day deadline to explain how they will comply with federal voter eligibility laws and identify what measures they will take to keep the rolls clean without the inclusion of undocumented individuals when election day arrives.
"Any election official, including the state election director, who knowingly maintains non-citizens on the state voter registration list (SVRL) or facilitates non-citizens receiving and casting votes could be subject to criminal liability", states a part of the document sent to the states.
Harmeet Dhillon, one of Trump's key officials
The government urged states to clean up their lists
These threats of criminal prosecution aimed primarily at states controlled by Democrats would not be necessary if the Senate would finally pass the SAVE America Act sponsored by Trump, which requires proof of citizenship and photo identification to vote in any federal election.
"Look, I don't want to scare anyone, but if this is causing fear, that means some people are worried because they are really breaking the law, and we want them to stop", Dhillon stated on the Just The News podcast. "I hope no criminal prosecution is necessary," the prosecutor reflected.
Dhillon indicated that there are state rolls that include "hundreds of thousands of deceased individuals", as is the case in North Carolina, where 34,000 deceased individuals appear on the lists, while an ongoing audit in Ohio recently pointed out 62 possible non-citizen registrations. Meanwhile, Michigan has removed over 1.4 million records since 2019 to clean up deceased voters.
