Fourth Alien Charged with Illegal Voting in Nevada as DOJ Crackdown Accelerates

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada announced today that a fourth noncitizen has been charged with illegally voting in a federal election, adding to a rapid series of cases that have exposed felonious gaps in the state’s voter rolls despite a massive recent purge. According to the press release posted by the office, Mlebinge Riziki Ramadhani, a Democratic Republic of Congo national and lawful permanent resident residing in Washoe County, was charged with one count of voting by an alien. 

The criminal information alleges she voted on or about November 8, 2022, in an election that included races for president, vice president, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. The maximum penalty is one year of imprisonment, a fine of up to $100,000, or both. The case was investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations.

First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah stated: “The law is clear: every eligible citizen has the right to vote, and no one has the right to corrupt that process through fraudulent means. Any attempt to undermine our elections through criminal conduct will meet swift and decisive accountability. The District of Nevada is committed to protecting the sanctity of the ballot box, and we will not tolerate any actions that threaten the fairness of our democratic system.”

This follows charges against three other noncitizens in the past week. On October 28, prosecutors charged Moneir Elzobier Ali Yousif, a lawful permanent resident from Sudan, and Khalida Safi, a lawful permanent resident from Afghanistan, with voting in the 2024 election. Days earlier, Jullie Ann Sumalinog Moore, a Filipino national and lawful permanent resident, was charged with voting in the November 2024 election. 

As the California Globe reported this week, Chattah has described the emerging pattern as evidence that “the public and political narrative that Nevada’s elections are not fraught with fraud is categorically false.”

In the past 96 hours, the District of Nevada has charged more illegal voting cases than in the previous six years under the Biden Administration. Additional arrests are expected as the federal crackdown continues. 

These cases form part of a broader Justice Department effort.

Earlier this week, the department announced charges involving dozens of aliens for illegal voting and related election crimes across multiple states, including California and Nevada.

The charges come despite a large-scale voter roll cleanup. Democratic Secretary of State Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar has inactivated or canceled more than 315,000 registrations in roughly a year (138,000 inactivated and 177,000 canceled in 2025, with additional actions in 2026), equivalent to roughly 15 percent of active registrations. The purge shrank Democrats’ once-substantial registration advantage to a razor-thin statewide edge. Yet it did not catch these noncitizen registrations or prevent the illegal votes now being prosecuted. 

Aguilar’s office has framed the maintenance as routine, while delaying and failing to provide complete voter registration records requested by the DOJ under the Help America Vote Act.

Nevada’s permissive rules—universal mail ballots, unlimited ballot harvesting, and no photo ID requirement—have long drawn scrutiny. 

As the Globe has documented, Governor Joe Lombardo has repeatedly criticized delays in results and Democratic resistance to integrity measures. Attorney General Aaron Ford has called voter ID unconstitutional.On November 3, voters will decide whether to maintain the strong support shown for basic verification. Question 7, the voter identification constitutional amendment, passed in 2024 with roughly 72–73 percent of the vote. 

Because Nevada requires initiated constitutional amendments to pass in two consecutive even-year elections, it returns for a second vote. The measure would require photo ID for in-person voting and additional identity verification (such as the last four digits of a driver’s license or Social Security number) for mail ballots. 

With early voting underway and midterms approaching, the question is whether that level of support holds for final passage. 

Chattah’s office has made clear that enforcement will continue. The latest charges underscore that noncitizen voting is not theoretical in Nevada—and that large-scale list maintenance alone has not resolved the problem.