Virginia Canceled 6,531 Noncitizen Voter Registrations Since June 2024, Records Show

Virginia's Department of Elections canceled 6,531 voter registrations flagged as belonging to "declared noncitizens" between June 2024 and June 2026, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch through a public records request.

The number comes from a system that cross-references Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles with the state's voter rolls. When someone tells the DMV they're not a U.S. citizen, on a license application or renewal, that flag gets checked against voter registration records.

If a match turns up, local registrars send the person a notice of intent to cancel. The individual then has 14 days to submit a sworn statement confirming citizenship. No response, or no proof, and the registration gets canceled.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called the numbers "disturbing beyond belief" and said federal law enforcement should be asking more questions. "Judicial Watch is demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election," Fitton said in a statement carried by both the Daily Signal and Just the News.

Fitton also tied the Virginia numbers to a separate controversy in New Jersey, where the state acknowledged finding 6,600 noncitizens on its voter rolls, fewer than 400 of whom reportedly voted. "These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis," Fitton said.

What the records don't show

Virginia produced no data on whether any of the 6,531 people actually cast a ballot. The state's records only track registration status, not voting history, according to the reporting from resistthemainstream and the Daily Signal alike.

Being registered while ineligible is a real problem. A voter roll should contain only eligible voters. But it is not the same as proving someone voted illegally. Election officials, as cited in the resistthemainstream report, have made that same point: appearing on a flagged list doesn't by itself establish illegal voting occurred.

The Virginia attorney general's office also noted in an April opinion that the DMV-to-voter-roll matching process can produce incorrect flags in some circumstances, according to that same reporting. So the 6,531 figure represents people who either failed to respond within 14 days or couldn't produce a sworn citizenship statement, not a confirmed count of ineligible voters caught mid-fraud.

Judicial Watch points out this count only captures people who told the DMV directly they weren't citizens. It says nothing about noncitizens who lied on their voter registration and were never flagged at all.

The settlement that pauses the process

In April, Virginia settled a lawsuit brought by the Campaign Legal Center and other left-leaning groups over the state's noncitizen-removal process, agreeing to pause the cancellations during the 90 days before federal elections. That means the program Judicial Watch is touting will go dark ahead of November, a point Fitton raised pointedly in his statement.

Groups like the Campaign Legal Center have generally argued that late-cycle purges risk sweeping up eligible voters who get flagged in error, with too little time to fix a mistaken cancellation before Election Day. That's a due-process concern. But it also means a state-run verification system will be switched off during the exact window when a close election could be affected by anyone still on the rolls who shouldn't be.

Neither side of that argument has been fully tested against hard data in what's public so far. There's no confirmed vote count tied to the 6,531 canceled Virginia registrations, and no indictments or DHS enforcement action specific to Virginia has been announced.

The bigger federal picture

The Virginia numbers land alongside a broader push from the Department of Homeland Security. DHS estimated this month that California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania combined had 256,463 noncitizens on their voter rolls, according to the Daily Signal. Separately, 25 states participating in DHS's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database have identified at least 28,000 noncitizen registrations nationwide so far, DHS said.

Those federal estimates and state-confirmed numbers don't always match. New Jersey's own count of 6,600 noncitizen registrations came in well below the federal estimate of 35,000 for that state, a gap nobody involved has fully explained yet.

The open question heading into November: does Virginia's pause on removals, required under the April settlement, leave any of the flagged-but-unresolved registrations active on Election Day? Judicial Watch says it wants more records. No federal law enforcement action has been announced in response.