Five hundred and ten. That's how many noncitizen voters in Washington, D.C., registered as Democrats before casting ballots in the June 16, 2026, primary and special elections. Four registered as Republicans. Fifty-five signed up with the National Progressives of America. Seven chose the Statehood Green Party. Two picked "other."
Out of 578 foreign nationals who voted, 88 percent chose the same party. Weird coincidence.
Judicial Watch obtained the numbers directly from the D.C. Board of Elections, and Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wasn't in a diplomatic mood. "It is an outrage and insult to every American citizen, and may be a violation of federal law, that D.C. allowed 578 foreign nationals to vote in the most recent D.C. elections," Fitton said. He has a point about federal law — the June ballot included a race for D.C.'s delegate to the House of Representatives, which makes this more than a local governance question. Federal elections have federal rules, and 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes noncitizen voting in those elections a crime.
D.C. made this possible on purpose. In 2023, the D.C. Council amended the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to allow noncitizens to register and vote in local elections. The theory was simple: people who live here should have a say. The practice was simpler: 578 foreign nationals showed up on Election Day, and the overwhelming majority pulled the lever for one party.
The timing of the Judicial Watch release couldn't be better — or worse, depending on which side of the aisle you're sitting on. The same week, U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced indictments against 10 noncitizens for illegally voting in that state. One of the defendants allegedly voted in eight separate elections over two decades. Another cast ballots in six. Four of the ten voted in multiple elections. One was in the country illegally.
That's not a handful of confused immigrants accidentally checking the wrong box on a form. That's a pattern sustained across years.
Meanwhile, on the other coast, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli filed an emergency federal court action against California after the Department of Homeland Security flagged approximately 190,832 noncitizens potentially on the state's voter rolls. The DOJ gave California a 48-hour deadline to review the names. Essayli's message was blunt: "We will not allow California to dilute the votes of American citizens."
Three states. Three enforcement actions. All running simultaneously in October, three weeks before the midterms.
The standard response from the opposition has always been that noncitizen voting is so rare it doesn't warrant attention — a rounding error, a distraction from "real" voter suppression. The D.C. numbers alone don't just contradict that argument. They humiliate it. Five hundred seventy-eight foreign nationals voted in a single municipal election in a single city, and the Board of Elections kept the records that proved it.
The 510-to-4 Democrat-to-Republican split does something else entirely. It answers the question nobody on the left wants asked: if noncitizen voting is truly random and accidental, why does it break 127-to-1 in one direction?
Judicial Watch has also documented noncitizen voting in previous D.C. elections — 388 noncitizens voted in the November cycle. The numbers keep climbing. The registrations keep skewing the same way. The enforcement actions keep expanding to new states.
Five hundred and ten Democrats. Four Republicans. The ratio speaks for itself.