DOJ charges 18 more noncitizens in North Carolina over 2024 election voting

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The Justice Department has indicted 18 more noncitizens in North Carolina for voting in the 2024 general election, spread across the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts. Added to 12 defendants charged earlier this year, the new cases take the statewide total to 30. Prosecutors frame the push as a deterrent message before the 2026 election. This item sets out who is charged, with what, and the penalties involved.

• Eighteen aliens, including one illegal alien, were indicted for voting in the 2024 general election, across North Carolina's Eastern, Middle and Western Districts.
• The new charges are additional to 12 defendants previously indicted in the Eastern District, taking the statewide total charged this year to 30.
• All nine Eastern District defendants are alleged to have falsely claimed U.S. citizenship to register and vote in 2024.
• In the Western District, three defendants are charged with both voting by an alien and making a false claim to citizenship, while Edread Ray Stanley is charged only with voting by an alien.
• Falsely claiming citizenship to vote carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine; voting by an alien carries up to one year and a $100,000 fine.

Executive summary

The Justice Department said on October 29, 2026 that a federal grand jury has indicted 18 aliens, including one illegal alien, in North Carolina for illegally voting in the 2024 general election. Nine were charged in the Eastern District of…

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