{"id":437177,"date":"2026-09-16T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:48:12","slug":"7-charged-with-voter-fraud-during-2024-elections-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437177\/","title":{"rendered":"7 charged with voter fraud during 2024 elections in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4jhobd7en1dkaxtu.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple arrested in North Texas for federal voter fraud\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4jhobd7en1dkaxtu.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple arrested in North Texas for federal voter fraud\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-d06e322c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Seven people in North Texas have been taken into federal custody and accused of voting illegally during recent general elections in Tarrant County and Dallas County.<\/p>\n<p>   North Texas election fraud arrests <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/986-6phead-doj-election-integrity-efforts_00.00.00.06.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The U.S. Department of Justice announced seven people have been taken into federal custody for allegedly illegally voting in general elections in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Six of the suspects have been federally indicted, while the seventh has been charged in a criminal complaint. Five were arrested on September 14, one was arrested on September 11, and another surrendered to federal authorities on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All seven of the suspects are non-citizens from Nigeria, Mexico, India, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though six are lawful residents of the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/s-anglin-doj-election-integrity-efforts-5p_00.00.47.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Six of the suspects are accused of illegally voting in the 2024 general election, and one is accused of illegally voting in the 2018 general election.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two of the federal defendants cast provisional ballots that were rejected. Six of the cases involved illegally cast votes in Tarrant County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Additionally, the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office has charged two more suspects with voter fraud, although those suspects have not been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Ryan Raybould, the U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, denied the idea that the investigation was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t care who that person voted for. That&#8217;s not our focus. Our focus is on the act of an illegal alien or an LPR casting a ballot in an election that he or she is not allowed to do,&#8221; Raybould said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">\u00a0&#8220;Just like we prosecute every violent crime vigorously, we&#8217;re going to prosecute every instance of voting fraud very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/s-anglin-doj-election-integrity-efforts-5p_00.00.02.44.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Tarrant County claimed 1.3 million registered voters during the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/tx-politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Politics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Seven people in North Texas have been taken into federal custody and accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[581,223,122,27,29,28,216,395,393],"class_list":["post-437177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas-county","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-tx-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}