(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received records from the District of Columbia Board of Elections revealing that 578 noncitizens voted in the Washington, DC, June 16, 2026, primary and special elections.
While federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, states and localities may allow noncitizens to vote in state and 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.
The records show 510 of the noncitizens who voted were registered Democrats. Four of the voters were registered Republicans; 55 were registered as “NPA” (National Progressives of America); seven were registered as “STG” (Statehood Green Party); and two were registered as “other.”
The noncitizen voter information was produced in response to a September 23, 2026, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sent on behalf of Judicial Watch and the District of Columbia Republican Party for:
Public records identifying the number of non-citizens who voted in the June 16, 2026, Primary and Special Election; including, information about the wards in which they are located, their party affiliation, and the designators for the ballots they received.
Judicial Watch previously uncovered that 388 noncitizens voted in DC’s November 2024 general election.
“It is an outrage and insult to every American citizen, and may be a violation of federal law, that DC allowed 578 foreign nationals to vote in the most recent DC elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “At a minimum, Congress must act to ensure elections in our nation’s capital are only decided by American citizens. And the Justice Department should immediately investigate whether noncitizens in DC are illegally voting in federal elections.”
In July 2024, Judicial Watch reported that data from the DC Board of Elections revealed that 113 noncitizens voted in the June “2024 Presidential Primary.”
In May 2024, Judicial Watch received records from DC 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 confirmed 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 DC 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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