President Trump’s Justice Department has charged four noncitizens in Pennsylvania with election-related crimes, including a Haitian national prosecutors say submitted eight fraudulent voter-registration applications and voted in the 2022 election.
The cases land just weeks before the 2026 midterms—and they put specific names, dates, counties, and alleged ballots behind a debate that too often gets buried beneath slogans.
Federal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday against Cliff Sanon, Dilea Ochoa-Perez, Sade Guppy, and Eduardo Gallardo Maldonado. Two are described by the government as illegal aliens; the other two are lawful permanent residents.
The Justice Department posted the case directly:
FOUR ALIENS Charged With ELECTION FRAUD in Pennsylvania.
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) September 24, 2026
The most serious allegation centers on Sanon, 39, a Haitian national living in Philadelphia.
According to the Justice Department, Sanon submitted a voter-registration application in February 2026 even though he was not a U.S. citizen. Prosecutors say that application was one of eight fraudulent registrations he submitted, and they further allege that he voted in the November 2022 election.
Sanon was charged by criminal complaint with one count of submitting a fraudulent voter-registration application. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison, one year of supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.
That “eight applications” detail is what makes this more than another abstract argument about election safeguards:
The other three cases involve alleged voting by people who were not U.S. citizens.
Ochoa-Perez, 43, a Mexican national living illegally in Coatesville, was charged with two counts of voting as an alien. Prosecutors allege she cast ballots in Chester County in both the November 2022 and November 2024 general elections.
Guppy, 37, a lawful permanent resident from Trinidad and Tobago, was charged with one count of voting as an alien. The government says she voted in Philadelphia County in November 2022.
Maldonado, 66, a lawful permanent resident from Mexico, faces the same charge. Prosecutors allege he voted in Philadelphia County in the November 2024 general election.
A current X breakdown gathered all four defendants and the election tied to each allegation:
Pennsylvania’s own rules are straightforward. The Pennsylvania Department of State says a person must be a United States citizen for at least one month before the next election in order to register.
The state also says every applicant must affirm U.S. citizenship and can face incarceration, fines, or deportation for submitting false information.
Applicants must register at least 15 days before an election, live in Pennsylvania and their election district for at least 30 days, and be 18 by Election Day. The state’s online guidance also makes clear that owning property or a business in a county does not by itself establish voting residence.
Those requirements matter here because the federal allegations are not about a technical mistake over a polling place. Prosecutors say the defendants were not citizens when the registrations or ballots at issue were submitted.
U.S. Attorney David Metcalf framed the prosecutions as a basic question of national sovereignty.
“Our sovereignty as a nation belongs to the American people and no one else,” Metcalf said in the department’s announcement. “Anyone, including illegal aliens, who votes illegally in our elections will be prosecuted for corrupting our democracy.”
HSI Philadelphia Special Agent in Charge Nathan Abel said unlawful ballots can undermine confidence in elections and diminish the voices of citizens. Homeland Security Investigations handled the Pennsylvania cases.
These are not isolated from the administration’s broader election-integrity push.
On September 18, the Justice Department announced charges against 16 people in cases spanning Texas, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Michigan, Georgia, and Idaho. The alleged conduct included unlawful voting, false citizenship claims, illegal registration, naturalization fraud, passport fraud, and related offenses uncovered during the investigations.
That earlier package included eight defendants in Texas alone. In one case, prosecutors alleged that a Venezuelan national and DACA recipient voted nine times between 2008 and 2024; another defendant was accused of voting under a false name and making a false statement on a passport application.
The department also described cases involving alleged voting in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan. As with the Pennsylvania defendants, those people are presumed innocent unless the government proves its allegations in court.
And on the same day as the Pennsylvania announcement, federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged two more noncitizens with illegal voting and allegedly lying about their voting history on naturalization applications.
The New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office says one defendant allegedly voted in the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 federal elections. The second allegedly voted in 2024.
Every defendant in the Pennsylvania cases is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Charges are allegations, not convictions, and the four cases by themselves do not establish the national scale of noncitizen voting.
What the charging papers do establish is why safeguards matter: the alleged violations are concrete, traceable, and in several cases said to have survived long enough to reach multiple election cycles.
Citizens should not have to choose between confidence in elections and honest discussion about vulnerabilities. The answer is enforcement grounded in evidence—one registration, one ballot, and one provable case at a time.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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