A federal grand jury has indicted 10 foreign nationals on charges of unlawfully voting and registering to vote in Minnesota, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said the indictments include nine counts of illegal voting by an alien and nine counts of making a false claim of citizenship in order to register to vote. The charges cover the general elections of 2022 and 2024, as well as the August 2026 primary elections.
According to Blanche, the defendants named in the indictments are foreign nationals from Brazil, Ghana and Liberia.
“In total, the grand jury’s indictments include nine counts of illegal voting by an alien, and nine counts of making a false claim of citizenship in order to register to vote,” Blanche said. “Charges include illegally voting in the general elections of 2022, 2024, and the midterm, the primary elections of August of this year, of August 2026.”
Blanche framed the case as part of the department’s broader push on election integrity, saying voter fraud “erodes the public’s trust in our electoral system” and that it is “vital to our democratic process” that only American citizens eligible to vote take part in U.S. elections.
The indictments arrive amid ongoing debate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, legislation that would impose stricter citizenship verification requirements for voter registration nationwide. Supporters of the bill argue it would prevent cases like the one announced in Minnesota; the measure has not yet passed.
The case adds to a string of federal fraud prosecutions tied to Minnesota in recent years, including large-scale financial fraud schemes uncovered in the Minneapolis area.
No additional details about the specific charges against each of the 10 defendants, their identities, or scheduled court dates were released in the DOJ’s announcement.
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