The charges are senior officials’ latest attempt to heighten voter fraud concerns amid midterm election campaigning

The US Department of Justice indicted another 10 individuals on noncitizen voting-related charges on Wednesday as Donald Trump’s administration continues to pursue allegations of voter fraud raised by the president.

In the sixth announcement of its kind this month, the attorney general, Todd Blanche, and homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, said 10 people in Minnesota were charged with making false claims about citizenship to vote, or voting as a noncitizen.

“Elections today are often decided by a small number of votes and that’s why these investigations and prosecutions matter,” Blanche told reporters during a press conference, in the latest attempt by senior Trump officials to heighten concerns about voter fraud.

While there is no evidence that fraudulent voting is a substantial problem, Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded allegations while claiming the electoral process is rigged against them. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank that often supports the administration’s initiatives, maintains a database of noncitizen voting – and identified 100 cases from 1982 to 2025. As the New York Times has noted, that represents 0.000008% of the 1.3bn votes cast in presidential elections over that period.

Mullin went further than Blanche on Wednesday, suggesting that voting machines were not secure. “We’ve had some trouble with...

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