Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says
A review of 2.1 million voter registrations turned up few anomalies, but Utah’s House speaker says ID law is needed so citizens trust elections.
(Cox is the biggest liar ever, he actually stole his election for Governor, by cheating. The FBI needs to investigate everything about him and many others.)
Utah’s elections office has not been able to confirm any cases of noncitizens voting in elections as it nears completing a review of voter rolls, while GOP lawmakers move forward with a bill that would require Utahns to provide documentary proof of citizenship to participate in state elections.
After spending months reviewing 2.1 million people on Utah’s voter rolls, thelieutenant governor has not found a single instance of a noncitizen voting in the state and only one instance of an ineligible individual registering to vote.
It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections, and county clerks check Utahns’ driver license or ID number, or the last four digits of their Social Security number to verify citizenship before registering someone to vote. Voters are also required to sign an affidavit certifying they are citizens.
“We have not yet encountered anyone who voted illegally,” Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, who oversees Utah’s elections, said of her office’s review of the state’s voter file.
The review — which has included comparing voter data to state and federal records — is still ongoing. Henderson said there were 486 registered voters whose information on file was either incomplete or inaccurate, which could be due to typos, or a missing driver license or Social Security number.
About a third of the 486 voters registered decades ago, before the state required a driver license or Social Security number to register. All 486 of the flagged individuals have been sent letters asking them to re-register or to provide additional information, and 52 have done so.
“I anticipate that the vast majority of these 486 are in fact citizens and just need to update their information,” Henderson said.
In the worst case, assuming all of those yet-to-be-verified registrations belong to noncitizens, the error rate for the rolls would be 0.02%.
Four additional noncitizens were identified as having registered to vote before the lieutenant governor’s review began, due to a programming error in the state’s system for voters to use when they were getting their driver licenses that allowed people to register without first verifying their citizenship.
The loophole was fixed before the review started and those four were removed from the rolls and have been turned over to the county clerks for further investigation. It is unknown if they voted.
The preliminary findings of the voter roll review comes as a bill from Rep. Cory Maloy, R-Lehi, requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship before being allowed to cast a ballot in state elections advances through the Legislature.
If a Utah driver license or ID verifies citizenship, those numbers can serve as voters’ proof, as well as numbers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribal treaty or tribal enrollment cards. Other documents that would qualify under the bill include birth certificates, a certificate of a degree of “Indian” blood or BIA birth affidavit, a U.S. passport or U.S. naturalization documents.
Utahns would have to provide that proof of citizenship when registering to vote or before voting in this November’s elections. Most Utahns have already provided that documentary proof by including their Utah driver license or ID number in their voter registration.
The requirements would only determine eligibility in elections for state offices, not federal, to comply with federal laws meant to prevent voter suppression. Voters who do not meet documentation specifications would receive a separate ballot listing only federal races.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures,five other states have passed laws requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote — and some of those laws face ongoing legal challenges.
Utah’s U.S. Sen. Mike Lee has proposed a stricter voter ID bill, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, at the federal level. Henderson announced the audit on Xlast year as Lee’s bill drew public attention.
Henderson said her office started by looking at all 2.1 million individuals in the state’s voter database and comparing them against the driver license database or by comparing the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number to that on file.
That process validated 99.5% the citizenship of the registered voters.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/01/23/are-non-citizens-voting-utahs/