The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury indicted 10 foreign nationals for alleged voter fraud in Minnesota, involving illegal voting in the November 2022 and 2024 general elections and the August 2026 primary.
Several defendants are accused of falsely claiming to be U.S. citizens in order to register or vote. One defendant, Ghanaian national Joshua Frederick Kofi Edzie, is accused of voting illegally in the August 11, 2026, primary and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship on two occasions.
The 10 defendants are nationals of Liberia, Lithuania, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada and South Africa. The DOJ said all are lawful permanent residents. The charges include making false claims of U.S. citizenship to vote, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, and voting by an alien, a misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of one year.
The cases resulted from an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations. The defendants were separately indicted on September 24, and all have made their initial appearances in federal court.
