In the United States, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, has pursued four criminal cases for non-citizen voting after a 10-month investigation. He had previously claimed thousands of such cases existed. Kansas's strict voter ID law was struck down by a federal court for lack of evidence. Nationally, the Brennan Center and Heritage Foundation report non-citizen voting is rare. The Trump administration has pushed for voter ID measures and used the SAVE program to identify potential non-citizens on voter rolls, referring over 24,000 cases to ICE since April 2025.
We’ll perform a deep-dive analysis of all sources and publicly available external materials, then prepare a structured timeline of events, an in-depth report explaining the background and context, and multiple perspectives.