This is the tone of a fresh report issued just ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Government Accountability Institute uncovered over 50 documented dangers facing our electoral system. This is not a compilation of speculation; it is a catalog of actual issues occurring at this very moment.
Peter Schweizer, the president of the GAI, described the situation as critical. He stated, “America’s elections face threats from every direction – foreign adversaries, political operatives, dark money, and government officials who refuse to enforce the rules.” The study categorizes these challenges into five primary areas. These span the spectrum from foreign funding to basic clerical mistakes that allow ineligible individuals to cast ballots.
GAI just documented 50+ threats to American elections, from noncitizens on the voter rolls to foreign money and ballots dumped behind a strip mall. Every example comes from court records, official findings or published reporting, with a fix for each.
https://t.co/MJlmrobzMC https://t.co/LXMbOYFO1Z
— Government Accountability Institute (@Govt_Acct_Inst) October 31, 2026
The segment regarding noncitizen voting is the one that compels you to pause and verify your own records. A recent Census Bureau analysis connected more than 24,000 voters in the 2020 election to noncitizen status with high confidence. That figure represents only a single snapshot. Separately, the Department of Homeland Security has pinpointed 278,000 noncitizens registered to participate in federal elections across the nation. This figure serves as a conservative estimate derived solely from public records and voluntary data provided by ten cooperating states.
In Michigan, an undercover probe uncovered two Iranian nationals registered to vote. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, approximately 6,600 individuals who identified as noncitizens appeared on voter rolls between 2023 and 2024. These are not minor oversights; they represent significant breaches in the system. Eric Eggers, a lead investigator for the group, noted, according to Breitbart, “None of these threats are hypothetical – each one is documented, and most can be fixed if officials are willing to enforce the laws already on the books.”
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ActBlue just PLED THE 5TH and REFUSED to answer about getting foreign donations infiltrating US politics on behalf of Democrats
She wouldn’t even refute getting RUSSIAN money! 🤯
ActBlue is a FRAUD group. Shut it down!
REP. JIM JORDAN: Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: How many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: Why did your entire legal team quit? Your in-house legal team?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: We won’t keep you here all day, but let me just do one more. Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
Absolutely insane.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 10, 2026
Then there is the chaos surrounding duplicate registrations. The Public Interest Legal Foundation discovered vast quantities of these duplicates. Consider Rashawn Slade in Pennsylvania, who was registered to vote seven distinct times within Allegheny County. How does this occur? Minor variations in how names are entered create new entries. A middle initial, an omitted suffix, or a transposed birthdate digit can deceive the system.
California, New York, and South Texas contain higher volumes of these duplicates than other regions. A contributing factor is how computers process names containing accents. State voter databases are not always coded to handle accented characters. Consequently, a name with a tilde and the same name without one are treated as two separate individuals. This technical failure allows the system to tally the same person twice.
This Woman Gave ActBlue $22 the Day We Met Her, But She Had No Internet
El-Sayed is raking in campaign donations from the Democrat fundraising platform, which apparently launders contributions through the elderlyBy Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
Milan — Elizabeth Waffle, the 88-year-old retiree who found internet fame as an unwitting political super-donor, is still living in a squalid trailer deep in the Michigan countryside.
And Waffle still has no electricity, no running water, and no Wi-Fi.
But being a true believer in liberal causes, and having no family beyond Georgie the arthritic hound, Waffle continues to donate a small portion of her modest retirement check to ActBlue, the online donation platform for Democratic candidates and causes.
But even Waffle herself was surprised to learn last July about the extent of her supposed giving. According to FEC filings, there were more than 13,000 transactions attributed to her, totaling more than $130,000 over the past five years.
“I think there’s something in there that’s off,” she said then. “I don’t have that kind of money.”
And something continues to be “off.”
Since our last visit, another 562 transactions totaling nearly $4,500 have been credited to Waffle in just six weeks. Among those transactions were four totaling $22 on the very day we first visited, despite the fact that Waffle had no access to the internet.
Among the recipients of Waffle’s alleged largesse over those 45 days is Abdul El-Sayed, the king of the Michigan micro-donors, who clocked in with a cool $51.
So we returned to the tattered trailer last week to show Waffle the printouts.
Then something strange happened. When the scope of our findings dawned on the old woman, she was not overcome with outrage, or even curiosity, but with latent hostility. She wondered if we were preparing a hit piece on ActBlue, the conduit to her cherished causes.
“I think it’s a bunch of hogwash,” she said of our questions. “If they’re cheating on the other side,” she meant the Republicans.
“Fight fire with fire?” I asked.
“Yeah,” she said. “Exactly.”
Now, I believe in many of the causes that Waffle does. Clean air. Healthy forests. Affordable medicines. A good day’s pay. And I told her as much. But what I do not believe in is the apparent theft of an elderly person’s identity to launder donations from overseas or those that exceed the contribution limits. Fraud does not create a better world, I said.
She softened. “I believe in honesty,” she said. “I do care if somebody is fudging and putting stuff in.”
“So don’t you want me to continue to look?” I asked.
“Yeah, if they are,” she said.
“Then you want to know?”
“Yes.”
“Then I give you my word. I’ll keep going.”
As we walked back to the car, I wondered if at that very moment another campaign transaction was being made in Elizabeth Waffle’s name.
— Michigan Enjoyer (@mich_enjoyer) October 21, 2026
The positive development is that the federal government is finally elevating this to a priority. The Trump administration has shifted election integrity from a secondary concern to a federal priority. New executive orders instruct agencies to enhance citizenship verification. They also mandate that states exchange information and prevent noncitizens from registering.
To assist, the administration broadened access to the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE program. They removed user fees and permitted bulk inquiries. This enables states to cross-reference voter lists against federal immigration records. Since late 2025, the SAVE program has granted states an unprecedented capacity to verify citizenship.
