The Somali-tied welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota is likely far worse than the American people think, involving &#8220;complicit&#8221; state government officials and totaling far more stolen money than original early estimates stated, according to Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller.
Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen from the state, and much of the welfare fraud has been tied to Somali migrants, as first reported by City Journal. And, alarmingly, some of the stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists. 
&#8220;We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history,&#8221; Miller said on Fox News. &#8220;We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes.&#8221;
Miller noted that some of the reported welfare scams include people &#8220;pretending that children have autism, who are not in fact autistic,&#8221; and &#8220;pretending to enroll people in food programs, when, in fact, nobody was ever enrolled.&#8221;
These fraudsters, Miller said, engaged in &#8220;massive fraud, lying, and theft, and grift on a scale we&#8217;ve never seen before in American history.&#8221;
&#8220;The total bill, the total tab for this, is going to be far beyond the numbers being reported,&#8221; he said, suggesting we are dealing with billions of stolen tax dollars tied directly to welfare schemes.
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&#8220;Based on the records we already have &#8212; this is a significant undercount, by the way &#8212; 75% of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that&#8217;s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,&#8221; Miller added.
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The Trump administration advisor also claimed that Democrat leaders in the state were &#8220;fully complicit&#8221; in the fraud.
&#8220;We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people,&#8221; he asserted.
Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be tied up in the scandal.
&#8220;Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/what-did-ilhan-omar-know-about-the-1b-welfare-fraud-case-in-her-minnesota-district/">reported</a> this past week. &#8220;Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.&#8221;
There are also serious questions about the oversight, or lack thereof, from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. 
Currently, the Treasury Department is investigating allegations that “under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this week.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday took action against six blue states that it says have failed to comply with requests to produce their voter rolls. 
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-six-additional-states-failure-provide-voter-registration-rolls">announced</a> suits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington for not producing statewide registration lists. Without these lists, the Justice Department said that they cannot certify that the states are maintaining an accurate count of eligible voters. 
&#8220;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,&#8221; said Attorney General Pam Bondi. &#8220;The Department of Justice will continue filing proactive election integrity litigation until states comply with basic election safeguards.&#8221;
The suits come amid a push from Republicans nationwide to crack down on non-citizen voting and maintain clean voter registration lists.
The lawsuits say that the states are not acting in accordance with the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, which compel states to maintain accurate voter lists. The attorney general is empowered to enforce those laws and has a right to access the lists under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the suits say.
&#8220;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. At this Department of Justice, we will not stand for this open defiance of federal civil rights laws,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1419811/dl?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">lawsuit</a> against Rhode Island says that on September 16 Rhode Island sent a letter to the Justice Department refusing a September 8 request for voter roll information. The letter said that the states “objects to providing” the requested information, according to the suit. This requested information includes driver license information and the last four digits of Social Security numbers used to register for voting. 
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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha claimed the suit was an example of Trump weaponizing the Justice Department. 
“We stand with and will defend the secretary, and win, because lawsuits concerning lawful conduct are largely unsuccessful,” he said. “But I’m not surprised that this administration is confused about what it means to behave lawfully.”
In September, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-dept-sues-six-states-for-refusing-to-hand-over-key-voter-data">announced</a> suits against Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and New York over the same issue.

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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that will decide whether states can count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. 
The case could have widespread implications for the 2026 midterm elections, as 17 states currently allow mail-in ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted several days after the election. Justices will <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/qp/24-01260qp.pdf">consider</a> “whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.”
The case comes after the Mississippi Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Mississippi over a state law that allowed mail-in ballots to be counted if received up to five days after Election Day. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Mississippi, saying that federal law preempted state law and required all ballots to be received by Election Day. 
After the decision from the 5th Circuit, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue. Watson argued to the court that the 5th Circuit’s decision “defies statutory text, conflicts with this Court’s precedent, and — if left to stand — will have destabilizing nationwide ramifications.”
He said that as long as the ballots had been filled out by Election Day, they should be counted. Nineteen mostly blue states and the District of Columbia are supporting Mississippi in its efforts to reverse the lower court’s decision. 
The RNC had asked the Supreme Court not to take up the case, saying that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to side against Mississippi was correct and did not need review. 
“A post-election receipt deadline for mail ballots thus extends ‘the election’ beyond the ‘day’ set by Congress. Text, history, and precedent all confirm this conclusion,” the RNC wrote in a brief to the court. “In no sense is the ‘election’ over when ballots are still coming in.”
The RNC also noted that the policy of accepting ballots after Election Day could delay election results for weeks. 
“Many States can’t conclude their elections for weeks after election day because they’re still receiving ballots from voters. Weeks after the ‘day for the election’ has come and gone, the elections in those States continue,” they wrote in a brief. 
President Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/">called</a> for an end to mail-in voting, saying that it opens the door to election fraud. 
In an executive order earlier this year, Trump directed the Justice Department to take action against states that count “absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the final tabulation of votes for the appointment of Presidential electors and the election of members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.”

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President Donald Trump said Monday that he was going to lead a charge against the use of mail-in ballots for elections. 
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that he would be signing an executive order to restructure the American election system and called for Republicans to take action to implement new election integrity measures. 
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115049485680941254">wrote</a>. “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Trump added that states were &#8220;merely&#8221; agents of the federal government for the counting and tabulating of votes. 
“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY,” Trump added. 
The post went on to argue that Democrats would be in trouble because of their support for transgender-identifying men playing in women’s sports, transgender policies, and lax border policies. 
Trump has long been a skeptic of mail-in ballots, arguing that they open the door to fraud. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swing-state-voters-receive-mail-ballots-for-relatives-who-died-moved-away">investigation</a> before the November 2024 election found that mail-in ballots across the country were sent to voters who were deceased or had moved states. 
While speaking to reporters on Monday alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump again called for Republicans to take action. 
“We gotta stop mail-in voting. And the Republicans have to lead the charge. The Democrats want it. Because they have horrible policy. If you have mail-in voting, you’re not going to have many Democrats get elected. That’s bigger than anything having to do with redistricting, and the Republicans have to get smart,” Trump said.
Trump added that his lawyers were currently crafting an executive order taking aim at mail-in ballots.

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday that the FBI had uncovered documents pertaining to an &#8220;alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots&#8221; ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Patel shared a screenshot of a headline from Just the News that read, &#8220;FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020&#8221; — along with his own comment confirming that the FBI had, in fact, turned such information over to Congress for additional scrutiny.
&#8220;The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP. I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review,&#8221; Patel posted.
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The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. <a href="https://t.co/sBVNUgN2BJ">pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ</a>
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1934797478609477704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail">report</a> published by Just the News, the alleged scheme involved the mass production of fake American driver&#8217;s licenses. The intelligence reports that raised the concern were from August of 2020 — and have now been declassified by Patel and turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Grassley knew of the intelligence reports, and had been concerned that they had never been properly investigated at the time. Instead, after President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, his newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines declassified an <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf">intelligence report</a> in March stating that there had been no attempt by Communist China to interfere in the outcome of the election.
That report, declassified on March 10, 2021, stated in part, &#8220;We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.&#8221;
With regard to China, the report said, &#8220;We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.&#8221;
The report also determined that Iran had made attempts to influence the election in Biden&#8217;s favor, but had not been successful in doing so.

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A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump from implementing an executive order that requires voters to show documentation proving their U.S. citizenship to cast a ballot in federal elections.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Bill Clinton appointee, granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from going forward with the proof-of-citizenship requirements as a lawsuit plays out, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-citizenship-lawsuit-4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-elections-voting-lawsuit-769caf1eceec29a13b4df78a931deb0b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by the Democratic National Committee and leftist voting rights groups, claims that Trump&#8217;s order is &#8220;an unlawful action that threatens to uproot our tried-and-tested election systems and silence potentially millions of Americans.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a>, which he signed in March, aims to eliminate voter fraud in U.S. elections.
&#8220;Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,&#8221; the order states.
Another part of Trump&#8217;s order — requiring those enrolled in public assistance to have their citizenship assessed before receiving a voter registration form — was also blocked by Judge Kollar-Kotelly. The judge denied the plaintiff&#8217;s request to block the part of Trump&#8217;s order that tightens deadlines on mail ballots, according to the AP.
Opponents of the executive order argue that states can establish their own election processes and that only Congress can take action to override state laws related to federal elections.
The judge&#8217;s move means that yet another Trump action will be tied up in the courts and prevented from taking effect. Federal judges have blocked numerous Trump orders, including on cuts to federal agency staff, deportations, and birthright citizenship. As of Thursday, 108 different rulings have blocked or temporarily frozen Trump&#8217;s attempts to carry out his agenda, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-administration-lawsuits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.

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President Donald Trump and his transition team are preparing to launch his second term with a series of high-profile executive actions on critical issues like the border, trade, and national security. Promoting election integrity ought to be high on the list of priorities.
The federal role in elections is limited, and rightly so. The Constitution leaves the power to regulate elections with the states. But the Biden administration and its Democrat allies expanded and abused federal power to stack the deck for their own reelections. They failed, and now President Trump has the chance to right the ship.
Trump can start by repealing <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order 14019</a>, Joe Biden’s unprecedented attempt to weaponize the federal government to help elect Democrats and defeat Donald Trump. The order requires every agency to focus on voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities in close coordination with partisan left-wing groups like the ACLU and the League of Women Voters. Small wonder, then, that the administration’s efforts were focused on driving turnout among college students, so-called “underrepresented groups,” and other demographics that make up the core of the Democratic Party.
Much of what the administration did remains hidden from Congress and the public, but what we know is shocking. Earlier this year, Vice President Harris announced that the Federal Work-Study program would <a href="https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/kamala-harris-says-government-will-pay-college-students-to-register-voters-joe-biden-president-white-house-2024-trump-election-november-federal-work-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pay</a> students to register and turn out voters, a policy only a hair away from buying votes with tax dollars.
The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-red-state-official-demands-answers-biden-executive-order-attempting-register-illegals-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Marshals Service</a> renegotiated jail contracts across the country to require officials to provide voter registration materials to federal prisoners, with no apparent regard for whether they are eligible to vote or are even citizens.
And the <a href="https://www.sba.gov/article/2024/03/19/sba-administrator-guzman-announces-agencys-first-ever-voter-registration-agreement-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Small Business Administration</a> signed an unprecedented decade-long voter registration agreement with Democrat officials in Michigan, just weeks after a mass protest vote in the Democratic Primary revealed huge problems there for the Biden campaign.
Each of these, and the countless other rules, “Dear Colleague” letters, and agency actions that resulted from the Biden order should be systematically identified and undone. Existing contracts with third party groups for voter registration, mobilization, and related activities should be terminated. President Trump should issue his own order affirmatively banning any federal involvement in voter registration and turnout activities in the future, unless federal law explicitly requires it. The Trump administration should also release the planning documents and records the Biden administration has refused to disclose to Congress. And the Justice Department should consider opening investigations if the evidence suggests that officials violated federal laws like the Hatch Act by using their offices to illegally influence the election. 
Speaking of DOJ, under Merrick Garland the agency has chosen to spend its resources attacking popular voting laws in red states like Georgia and suing to force Virginia to add self-identified noncitizens to the rolls ahead of the election. Incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi has the chance to end that nonsense and refocus the Department on investigating and prosecuting election crimes like noncitizen voting. Rather than support Marc Elias-backed lawsuits, Trump’s DOJ should aggressively defend voter ID laws, citizenship requirements, and other commonsense election integrity measures against baseless attacks in the courts. And the Department could go on offense, suing states with bloated voter rolls for violating the National Voter Registration Act’s clear requirements to maintain clean and accurate lists.
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The Trump administration should also make it far easier for state officials to use federal records to identify and remove ineligible noncitizens from the voter rolls. Under Biden, the federal government made it a chore to access programs like Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, prompting states like <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-secretary-state-sues-biden-administration-obstructing-removal-non-citizen-registered-voters">Ohio</a> to sue for access. The Trump Administration should require federal officials to grant access promptly upon request and look for ways to make accessing these resources as easy and inexpensive as possible.
President Trump has the chance to make election integrity a cornerstone of his second term. Dismantling harmful policies like Executive Order 14019, defending election integrity laws, and empowering our states are critical steps to strengthen the foundation of our constitutional republic. By taking bold action, President Trump can rebuild faith in the democratic process and help make elections great again.
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Jason Snead is the executive director of Honest Elections Project Action.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A judge on Monday upheld a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/missouri" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Missouri</a> law mandating that voters show photo identification at the polls to cast a ballot. 
Cole County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jon Beetem <a href="https://www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/JUDGMENT.PDF?courtCode=19&amp;di=3366631" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that multiple groups that alleged the state’s voter ID laws were unconstitutional “failed to prove their case.” Beetem said Missouri’s law was a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; deterrent for voter fraud and did not violate the rights of those who challenged the measure. 
“Requiring photo identification at the polls is a reasonable way to deter potential voter impersonation,” the judge wrote. “It is not irrational or arbitrary for the State to enact laws that can deter voting fraud, such as voter impersonation.” 
The law, signed in 2022 and in effect for the 2024 presidential election, was challenged by the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and multiple Missouri residents who claimed it imposed a burden on their right to vote. They argued the law would prevent many eligible residents from voting. 
Beetem was unconvinced, saying that Missouri makes it easy for people qualified to vote to acquire photo identification. 
“The State of Missouri provides free photo identification to individuals who wish to obtain it for the purpose of voting,” he wrote. “There was no evidence that any of the individual voter Plaintiffs were asked to pay money to obtain a qualifying photo identification from the State after asking for a photo ID in order to vote.” 
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He added that &#8220;any ‘harms’ to the organization resulting from the law are self-inflicted” and based on speculation. 
The judge ruled that these concerns do not trump the security the ID requirements bring to the election. 
“The State of Missouri has a compelling interest in promoting confidence among the electorate that the people who have voted in an election are the individuals who are registered and presented themselves at the polls.”
The ruling was celebrated by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who defended the law in court. 
“We went to court, we put on the evidence, and radical activists working to undermine our elections FAILED,” Bailey posted on X. “This is a HUGE win for election security.”
The order came <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/resounding-victory-judge-upholds-missouri-law-banning-trans-procedures-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the same day</a> that another judge in Missouri upheld the state’s law banning transgender procedures on minors.

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Local <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado">Colorado</a> election officials launched an investigation this week after they discovered that at least 12 mail-in ballots for the 2024 election had been stolen and turned in and multiple were counted as legitimate votes.
The voter fraud <a href="https://www.kkco11news.com/2024/10/24/fraudulent-ballots-caught-by-election-officials-mesa-county-reports-secretary-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was flagged</a> by election officials in Mesa County, a Republican-dominated area in western Colorado, on Tuesday due to signature verification measures. One of the ballots was flagged after a voter tracked the ballots and saw that it had been cast even though they had never received their ballot. 
“I am fully committed to ensuring the integrity and security of our elections. We are currently investigating attempted election fraud,” said Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Bobbie Gross. 
Three ballots were counted as legitimate and cannot be voided though the voters can cast another ballot, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/colorado-election-officials-fraudulent-ballots-rcna177153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The ballots were reportedly flagged by the signature verification process, but were approved by an election judge, who has since been “reassigned,” according to Colorado Public Radio.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, said that while it was “unfortunate” that the ballots had been counted, the state’s election &#8220;system did work,&#8221; adding that they were still determining motive. Which candidates the ballots were marked for was not disclosed by the officials. 
Griswold <a href="https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2024/PR20241024BallotFraud.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the investigation on Thursday, which Gross suggested may compromise the county’s criminal investigation. 
“Our priority is to handle this investigation with the utmost care and diligence, and I believe that prematurely releasing details could compromise our ability to hold those responsible accountable,” Gross said. “While we understand the Secretary of State’s desire to make public statements, this is our community and our investigation.”
Gross said that the county would share further information on the investigation when “it is responsible to do so.” 
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“It is critical that we follow proper procedures to ensure a thorough and effective investigation without tipping off those involved,” she said. “The people of Mesa County deserve transparency and accountability, but it must be done in a manner that protects the integrity of the investigation.”
“We ask for patience as we proceed with caution to ensure a just and fair outcome for our community,” Gross added. “I am committed to transparency and will provide updates as the situation evolves.”
Over 27,000 votes have already been counted in Mesa County, which went for former President Donald Trump by almost 30 points in 2020. A previous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swing-state-voters-receive-mail-ballots-for-relatives-who-died-moved-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire investigation</a> documented that people across the country had been receiving ballots for others who had moved away or even people who had died.

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An 81-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> man was shocked to receive a mail-in ballot for his wife, who died in October 2022. 
George, who lives in Kane County about 50 miles west of Chicago, showed The Daily Wire the ballot which he found in his mailbox on Saturday. He also received a ballot addressed to his late wife ahead of the Illinois primary in March. This was especially confusing, George said, because he had shown his wife&#8217;s death certificate to Kane County election officials — who also told The Daily Wire that George’s wife was no longer on the voter rolls.
The saga has George concerned about the integrity of the presidential election — and he&#8217;s not alone. Voters in several swing states have reached out to The Daily Wire to share stories like George&#8217;s, and raise concerns about what&#8217;s going on with mail-in ballots.
“There are states that do better than others in terms of identifying and removing all forms of inaccurate voter registration,” says Honest Elections Project executive director Jason Snead, adding that there are “widespread” issues with voter rolls throughout the country. 
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George, who has lived in Illinois for over six decades, said his ballot issues began with the 2022 midterms, when he got to his polling place on Election Day, only to be told he couldn’t vote in person because he had a pending mail-in ballot. 
In the end, George said he had to go home and pick up his mail ballot, which he hadn&#8217;t used, and take it in to get it voided. He also brought the ballot that had been sent to his late wife, which he said really “upset” the election officials. He said he was eventually able to vote, but only after about 45 minutes of discussions with election officials and showing his wife’s death certificate to have her ballot voided.
While Illinois law allows voters to request permanent mail-in vote status for primary and general elections, George told The Daily Wire that he never signed up to get a mail-in ballot, and always votes in person.  
“My assumption is that they are just sending everyone they can think of a ballot,” George said. 
Kane County Clerk John Cunningham told The Daily Wire that George’s wife was no longer on the rolls, and that the county’s signature verification process would have caught any attempted voter fraud. 
“Even if someone got a ballot and they mailed it in, and filled it out, it would not be counted because the signature would not be right,” he said. “Because we check for signature on our voter database with the signature on the ballot and if they don’t match, then we don’t count them.”
He said that he did not know how she could have ended up with a ballot for the primary election.  
“She’s not on our records, so I don’t know how she would have gotten that,” he said, but said he couldn’t tell when she was removed from the record. 
Several current and former Arizona voters told The Daily Wire they have received ballots for people who had moved out of the state.
Skyler, a former Army medic, told The Daily Wire that he and his wife have received 2024 mail-in ballots from Arizona at their home in Colorado, where he is now registered to vote. Previously a resident of Maricopa County, Skyler said that he voted absentee throughout his military career before retiring in May 2024, when he registered to vote in Colorado. 
Despite changing his voter registration and informing Maricopa County that he was no longer an Arizona voter, Skyler said that received mail-in ballots for both the July primary election and the November general election. He doesn&#8217;t know how Maricopa County got his Colorado address.
Another Maricopa County resident told The Daily Wire they had been receiving a ballot for their daughter for the past three years, even though she had moved to Utah. They said they returned the ballots every year, indicating that their daughter no longer lived there, but that they still had been receiving her ballot. 
One Maricopa County woman told The Daily Wire that she had received a ballot to her home for her son for years, as recently as the 2024 primary elections, even though he had lived in Alabama for six years. 
According to Arizona law, voters on the Active Early Voting List (AEVL) are automatically <a href="https://azsos.gov/elections/voters/early-voting">sent</a> a ballot “for all elections in which they are eligible to vote.” However, voters are <a href="https://elections.maricopa.gov/voting/active-early-voting-list.html">supposed</a> to be taken off the list if they do not vote in two consecutive federal elections. 
“A voter may be removed from AEVL if the voter does not cast an early ballot in at least one candidate election over the course of two consecutive federal election cycles and fails to respond to an official notice from the Elections Department,” Maricopa County’s election website says. 
&#8220;If you don’t vote the ballot, why do they keep sending you one?” the concerned Arizonan asked, noting that her son has not voted in the 2018, 2020, or 2022 federal elections, but received a ballot for the 2024 primaries. 
She said that she also had received a ballot for a prior resident of a home she and her husband had purchased in Tucson. She said this raised concerns about how many ballots may be floating out there for people who have not moved out of Arizona, or even to a different home. 
When asked about concerns with mail-in ballots, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office said voters could “fill out a voter cancellation form” online and pointed to the county&#8217;s “voter list maintenance practices” posted online. 
“Under Recorder [Stephen] Richer, more than 400,000 voters have been removed from our voter rolls due to diligent list maintenance. Our office reviews multiple databases to ensure our voter rolls remain as accurate as possible,” the recorder’s office told The Daily Wire in a statement. 
Voting by mail in Arizona begins on October 9. The deadline to request a ballot by mail is October 25. 
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With just 34 days until the election, issues with mail-in ballots have begun to make headlines. Last week, election officials in Madison, Wisconsin, sent out 2,215 duplicate ballots to the heavily-Democratic city. 
“This was a mistake,” said city spokesman Dylan Brogan. “The clerk’s office moved to rectify it as quickly as possible.”
In response, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) has <a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Madison_Clerk_Duplicate_Ballots.pdf">called</a> for an independent investigation into the incident, saying that voters “deserve clear answers regarding the full scope of this blunder.”
In Pennsylvania, another battleground state, the Republican National Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rnc-says-pennsylvania-county-ignored-state-law-before-sending-out-mail-in-ballots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> last month alleging that Montgomery County officials had sent out 2024 election ballots without conducting accuracy testing required by state laws. The suit said that the county, the commonwealth&#8217;s third most populous, did not conduct logic and accuracy tests before sending out absentee ballots.
Former President Donald Trump has long raised concerns about mail-in voting, arguing that it opens up the door to fraud. And while Trump has encouraged supporters to vote however they can in the coming cycle, he has said he would restrict mail-in voting if he wins the White House.
&#8220;Any time you have a mail-in ballot, there&#8217;s going to be massive fraud. What we have to do is, get control, and then we have to change it,&#8221; he said during an interview in August. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a very simple change, same day voting.&#8221;
Editor&#8217;s note: If you had an issue with mail-in ballots, we’d love to hear from you in our tip line. You can <a href="https://tips.dailywire.com/hc/en-us/requests/new">submit a tip here</a>.

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Thousands of non-citizens and felons were removed from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> voter rolls since the implementation of a 2021 law that has been celebrated as a way to safeguard the state’s elections.
More than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the Lone Star State’s voter rolls, Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-over-1-million-ineligible-voters-removed-from-voter-rolls">announced</a> yesterday. The cleanup of the voter rolls, which was made possible by <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-signs-election-integrity-legislation-into-law">Senate Bill 1</a>, resulted in over 6,500 non-citizens and more than 6,000 felons being removed.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott stated. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.”
“We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting,” Abbott went on to state. The announcement from Abbott also noted that the process is ongoing.
In addition to the thousands of non-citizens and felons, the cleanup also resulted in the removal of more than 457,000 deceased people and over 134,000 people who had moved from the voter rolls.
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The voter roll cleanup comes as Texas has become an increasingly competitive state in some recent elections, with Republicans sometimes only winning by slim margins. In the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/texas">2018 midterms</a>, for example, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz beat his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by just over 200,000 votes.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-removes-more-than-6000-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls">removed 6,300 non-citizens</a> from his state’s voter rolls after signing an executive order telling the Department of Elections to remove “non-citizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.”
Gov. Abbott and Gov. Youngkin’s efforts to remove non-citizens from their states’ voter rolls come amid growing concerns that mass illegal immigration could harm the integrity of American elections. Elon Musk has <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-says-democrats-allow-illegal-immigration-build-political-power">accused</a> the Democratic Party of leveraging illegal immigration to grow their political power, in part by allowing illegal immigrants to be counted in the Congressional district apportionment process.

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Thousands Of Non-Citizens, Felons Removed From Texas Voter Rolls

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Virginia this week removed more than 6,300 non-citizens from the state&#8217;s voter rolls as part of election security measures spearheaded by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
On Wednesday, Youngkin signed an <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/eo/EO-35-Comprehensive-Election-Security-Ensuring-Legal-Voters-and-Accurate-Counting---vF---8.7.24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> instructing the Department of Elections to remove &#8220;non-citizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.&#8221; Pursuant to the order, the state also identified and removed from voter rolls 79,867 deceased voters, and identified registered voters who had moved out of state.
“The Virginia model for Election Security works. This isn&#8217;t a Democrat or Republican issue, it&#8217;s an American and Virginian issue,&#8221; Youngkin said in a <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2024/august/name-1031585-en.html">statement</a>. &#8220;Every legal vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes or inaccurate machines.&#8221;
Virginia does not require voters to present identification at the polls, which allows unregistered voters to impersonate deceased individuals or others on the voter rolls.
Youngkin&#8217;s executive order notes that it is essential for different agencies&#8217; jurisdictions to work together to ensure clean elections. Virginia identified non-citizens using information submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles cross-referenced with Department of Homeland Security and Social Security information. Virginia entered into comprehensive data-sharing agreements with seven states and, has received data from 42 states.
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Other states could have a harder time purging non-citizens from voter rolls, however, because &#8220;Virginia is one of only three states in the nation that require those registering to vote to provide their full 9-digit social security number.&#8221;
Youngkin&#8217;s efforts to secure elections come after the Democrat-controlled legislature created extended early voting periods and mail-in voting. Youngkin said drop boxes are &#8220;under 24/7 monitoring,&#8221; but still called for &#8220;strengthening state and federal law.&#8221;
His executive order said that absentee ballots must only be mailed when requested by a voter, and that returned absentee ballots cannot be counted unless &#8220;the last four digits of a voter&#8217;s social security number and year of birth provided on the envelope are matched to the voter&#8217;s record in the statewide voter registration system.&#8221;
The order also requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to generate a daily file of non-citizen transactions, and instructs local registrars to notify county prosecutors when they become aware of an illegal immigrant&#8217;s attempt to register to vote. The order made clear that Virginia&#8217;s Attorney General &#8220;has full authority to enforce election laws,&#8221; and that the state will use only paper ballots going forward.
&#8220;In Virginia, we don’t play games, and our model for election security is working,&#8221; Youngkin said.

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