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GOP-Led Local Probes Revive 2020-Style Fraud Tactics With Ballot Seizures and Noncitizen Referrals

State election chiefs warn the tactics lack evidence, risking public trust.

Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini, left, alongside the county's chief election clerk, look at a book with old county election records, on October 30, 2025.
Ballots from the 2020 general election are loaded by the FBI onto trucks at the Fulton County Election Hub in Union City, Georgia, in January.
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Overview

  • Local Republican officials are reopening settled elections with ballot grabs and broad noncitizen claims drawn from Trump-era fraud narratives.
  • In California, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized about 650,000 2025 special-election ballots after activists alleged a 40,000-ballot gap that the registrar put at 103.
  • In Arizona, Maricopa County sent more than 200 suspected noncitizen registrations for prosecution using DHS’s SAVE database, which can miss recent naturalizations.
  • In Michigan, Macomb County’s clerk touted noncitizen voter finds from jury lists that the secretary of state later showed included citizens.
  • State pushback is growing as California’s attorney general sued over the Riverside seizure and election law scholar Richard Hasen called the trend “extremely worrisome,” while Trump allies Harmeet Dhillon and James Comer promoted new probes.