Records show a noncitizen registered as a Democrat and voted in California's 2024 presidential election, investigator says

A noncitizen registered to vote as a Democrat and cast a ballot in California's 2024 presidential election, San Diego investigator Amy Reichert says. She says she has the official records to prove it.

"An illegal alien registered as a Democrat and VOTED in California's 2024 presidential election," Reichert wrote on X on Thursday. "I have the records proving he voted, documentation of his immigration status from Homeland Security, AND evidence that a ballot was mailed to him AGAIN last week."

Reichert said the voter records "were obtained legally and directly from the Public Information Officer at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters," and posted images of what she described as "official government records" showing the man recorded as voting in the 2024 general election. She has not publicly named him. San Diego Newsline has not independently reviewed the Homeland Security documents she describes.

She also pointed to the double standard. "I had to show my California driver's license AND press pass to view voter records," Reichert wrote. "Yet a noncitizen was registered as a Democrat and recorded as voting in the 2024 presidential election without having to prove he was a U.S. citizen."

California does not require proof of citizenship to register. Applicants attest under penalty of perjury that they are citizens.

'This is why Newsom doesn't want to turn over the voter records'

Reichert tied the case directly to Sacramento's fight with the Trump administration over voter data. "This is why @GavinNewsom doesn't want to turn over the voter records," she wrote.

The timing was striking. On the same day, the U.S. Department of Justice sued California, Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan in federal court in Los Angeles.

The complaint says agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, after "a thorough analysis of voter rolls and federal data," found "thousands of likely noncitizens registered to vote in California." Days before the suit, it says, the federal government sent California officials "a list of over 20,000 names of people the Federal Government believes are likely noncitizens who were sent a vote-by-mail ballot."

The state, according to the complaint, "refused to independently verify the citizenship of people included on the list," and would not "agree to work with the Federal Government to verify citizenship status before tabulating those voters' votes." The complaint notes that California counts a mail ballot once the signature is verified, "even a 'signature' that says only 'X.'"

The Justice Department is asking the court to stop California from counting mail ballots in federal elections from people the federal government has identified as likely noncitizens until their citizenship can be verified.

"State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America," Attorney General Todd Blanche said, according to CBS News.

What the state says

Weber has called the federal claims "unsubstantiated" and said the Justice Department had not provided her office the list, CBS News reported. Her office said that "due to the pending litigation, we have no further information we can share." Logan said Los Angeles County would not open a thumb drive of names the federal government sent, citing data privacy and security protocols.

The Riverside County Registrar of Voters had not publicly responded to Reichert's posts as of Friday.

It is the second time this month Washington has pressed California over noncitizens on its voter rolls. Earlier, the Justice Department gave the state 48 hours to review its list of suspected noncitizen registrants, and Weber refused.

Voting in a federal election as a noncitizen is a federal crime. The case is *United States v. State of California*, No. 2:26-cv-12025, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.