Judicial Watch: 388 Noncitizens Voted in DC’s November Election

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received a spreadsheet from the District of Columbia Board of Elections revealing that 388 noncitizens voted in DC’s November 2024 general election.

While federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, states and localities may allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. In 2023, the DC Council amended the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to allow all noncitizen residents, including illegal aliens, to vote in its local elections. 

More than 230 of the noncitizens who voted are registered Democrats, the list shows. Less than 20 are registered Republicans. The remainder did not register with a party or registered with a third party. The list does not detail whether the voters are illegal aliens nor whether the noncitizen voters were restricted, as law requires, to voting for only local DC offices.

The noncitizen voter information was produced in response to a Judicial Watch December 2, 2024, DC Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:

Public records identifying the number of non-citizens who voted in the November 2024 General Election; including, information about the wards in which they are located, their party affiliation, and the designators for the ballots they received.

In July 2024, Judicial Watch reported that data from the District of Columbia Board of Elections revealed that 113 noncitizens voted in the June “2024 Presidential Primary.”

“It is an outrage and insult to every American citizen, and may be a violation of federal law, that DC allowed 388 foreign nationals to vote in the 2024 general election,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Congress can and should end this practice immediately.”

In May 2024, Judicial Watch received records from the District of Columbia, explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.

In July 2024, Judicial Watch uncovered records showing that, as of June 2024, 583 foreign nationals are registered to vote in Washington, DC. The records from the Board of Elections also confirm that noncitizens can be election workers.

In December 2023, a notice letter was sent to election officials in the District of Columbia notifying them of evident violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), based on their failure to remove inactive voters from their registration rolls. The letter pointed out that D.C. publicly reported removing few or no ineligible voter registrations under a key provision of the NVRA. The letter threatened a federal lawsuit unless the violations were corrected in a timely fashion. In response to Judicial Watch’s inquiries, Washington, DC, officials admitted that they had not complied with the NVRA, promptly removed 65,544 outdated names from the voting rolls, promised to remove 37,962 more, and designated another 73,522 registrations as “inactive.”

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