
Thirteen. That's the total number of people the Biden Department of Justice prosecuted for voter fraud in four years. Not thirteen hundred. Not thirteen per state. Thirteen human beings, total, across the entire country, over an entire presidential term.
The Trump DOJ just arrested more than 200.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — who heads the Civil Rights Division — laid out the numbers in a recent briefing that should be required viewing for anyone who ever said voter fraud was a "conspiracy theory." The DOJ has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election crimes in recent weeks alone. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have combined for over 160 additional arrests. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's department has made 151 arrests on its own, with 1,620 cases involving noncitizen voters still under active investigation.
And then there's the number that should keep election officials awake at night: 300,000 additional cases under investigation based on state voter rolls.
"What we care about is that noncitizens who voted in a federal election canceled out the votes of American citizens," Dhillon said. "It happens a lot."
Four words. It happens a lot. Not "isolated incidents." Not "statistically insignificant." The head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice said noncitizen voting happens a lot.
New Jersey offered a particularly instructive example. The state had 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote. The explanation from officials? A "computer glitch." Six thousand six hundred people didn't register themselves through a software error. Someone either built a system that doesn't verify citizenship or chose not to fix one that failed to.
"I'm not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey," Dhillon said. "They're not really cooperating with us."
A state government refusing to cooperate with a federal voter fraud investigation while claiming voter fraud doesn't exist is a particular kind of transparency. The DOJ is investigating. New Jersey is stonewalling. The public can draw its own conclusions about which side is worried about what the records show.
The enforcement sweep is being described as a whole-of-federal-government effort — DOJ, FBI, DHS, and U.S. attorney offices nationwide working in coordination. That's not a task force chasing a handful of bad actors. That's infrastructure built to process a volume of cases that the previous administration pretended didn't exist.
"I think there are a lot of nervous election officials, because I think some of them know that they've been looking the other way," Dhillon said.
The Biden DOJ's thirteen prosecutions in four years weren't a reflection of how much fraud existed. They were a reflection of how much fraud the administration was willing to see. The cases didn't materialize out of thin air when the administration changed. The evidence was sitting in voter rolls, in registration databases, in records that nobody with authority was motivated to open.
Dhillon's team is also investigating ActBlue — the Democratic fundraising platform — for foreign donations. That investigation is ongoing, and Dhillon didn't elaborate beyond confirming it exists. The fact that the same enforcement apparatus uncovering noncitizen voters is now looking at the Democrats' primary fundraising vehicle is a thread worth watching.
"We're really on a roll now," Dhillon told reporters, "and in the last several weeks we have indicted and/or convicted 67 different individuals."
Thirteen was never the real number. It was the number they were comfortable with.


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