President Trump’s Justice Department says it has identified 405 Washington registrants as noncitizens — and that the group is tied to more than 1,500 votes cast across prior elections.
Now federal prosecutors are asking the state to set aside any current ballots connected to those names until officials verify whether the voters are citizens.
The number is too serious to shrug off. It is also too consequential to handle carelessly.
Washington officials must determine, voter by voter, whether the federal match is accurate — and the public deserves a transparent accounting of what they find.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington says it compared publicly available state voter information with Department of Homeland Security records. Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd told Secretary of State Steve Hobbs that 405 registrants appear to lack U.S. citizenship.
According to DOJ, many of the people on the list are lawful permanent residents — commonly called green-card holders — who may live and work legally in the United States but cannot vote in federal elections. Federal prosecutors say the group is associated with more than 1,500 past votes.
The department’s request is narrowly focused on the election now underway: identify any ballots submitted by the listed registrants and hold them apart until the state confirms citizenship. DOJ also warned that knowingly making a false citizenship claim to register or vote can carry criminal penalties.
Floyd called the findings the “tip of the iceberg,” but that characterization remains an allegation from federal prosecutors. The list still has to be checked against current, individual records before anyone can honestly say that all 405 cases represent illegal registrations or votes.
The Associated Press reports that the voting histories attached to the names stretch back years — in one case, the person’s most recent vote was in 1994. The federal referral therefore reaches across multiple election cycles rather than focusing only on last-minute registrations for November.
Age can also complicate a database match. A person who appeared as a noncitizen in an older federal record may have naturalized later.
Previous federal voter-list comparisons in other states have been revised after local officials checked newer records, contacted voters, and separated confirmed noncitizens from people whose status had changed or whose records had been misunderstood.
AP also notes that similar federal challenges have emerged in California and Alaska, placing Washington inside a broader national dispute over voter-roll citizenship checks.
Those disputes have exposed the same core problem: federal immigration records can identify genuine red flags, but election administrators still need current evidence before making a final eligibility decision about a specific person.
The Washington list still demands action. Its age makes careful verification essential.
If a person remained a noncitizen while registering or voting, officials need to document it and enforce the law. If federal data is stale and the person is now a citizen, that fact must be documented too.
Washington’s statewide scale makes even a small error rate important. The Washington Secretary of State’s elections office reported 5,131,564 active registrations as of October 1.
The state votes by mail, ballots were sent by October 16, and Election Day is November 3. Voters may return ballots through official drop boxes or by mail, and county election offices process those ballots under Washington’s verification rules.
That compressed timeline explains why DOJ is seeking segregation rather than demanding that all 405 names simply be removed from the rolls. Holding a challenged ballot preserves it while officials investigate; an indiscriminate purge could wrongly disenfranchise a naturalized citizen and run into federal restrictions on systematic roll maintenance close to an election.
The practical question is whether counties can flag any affected return envelope before a ballot is accepted and separated from its identifying envelope. Once that separation occurs, a secret ballot can no longer be tied back to an individual voter, which makes the timing of the federal request especially important.
405 Noncitizens, More Than 1,500 Ballots, and Washington Says Nothing to See Here
Federal prosecutors say 405 noncitizens registered and voted in Washington State, casting more than 1,500 ballots. Some of them were voting for decades, and some voted dozens of times.… pic.twitter.com/3YXjpXgg5W
— Katie K USA (@KimKatieUSA) October 27, 2026
KIRO 7 reports that Hobbs’s office is reviewing the names under state and federal law. Hobbs accused the Justice Department of trying to cast unfounded suspicion on Washington’s election just one week before voting ends.
The state also argues that Washington, not the federal government, administers its elections and that immigration data alone does not conclusively establish a person’s present citizenship. Those are legitimate legal and factual cautions — but they are not a reason to avoid answering the underlying question.
Election confidence is not protected by pretending a specific federal referral does not exist. It is protected by doing the work in daylight: checking all 405 names, preserving the ballots while that happens, explaining how many matches were accurate, and referring any provable violations for enforcement.
If the DOJ list is substantially right, Washington has a serious voter-roll problem that spans multiple election cycles. If it is substantially wrong, the public should see the evidence showing why.
Either outcome demands facts rather than slogans.
The state now has the list. The public deserves a transparent answer — voter by voter and ballot by ballot.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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