Two separate election-integrity pushes, in two different swing states, landed in the same week — and they're already fueling a renewed push in Washington for federal proof-of-citizenship voting requirements.
Michigan: 1,062 Self-Reported, 40 on the Rolls
Macomb County, Michigan, Clerk Anthony G. Forlini announced this week that from January 2025 through June 2026, his office identified 1,062 prospective jurors who self-reported that they are not U.S. citizens — people excused from jury duty on that basis. Of those, 40 turned up on Macomb County's Qualified Voter File, and five have an actual voting history. Forlini's office says it referred the findings to the Michigan Bureau of Elections in January, April, and July.
Context matters here. Forlini has made similar claims before. In January, he said he'd found 15 non-citizens registered to vote; a state review by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office later found several of those flagged people were actually verified U.S. citizens, while others had voting histories that didn't match his account. Only a handful were ultimately substantiated. That doesn't mean this new, much larger number is wrong — but "self-reported non-citizen on a jury form" and "state-confirmed non-citizen" aren't the same category, and the gap between Forlini's initial numbers and what survives review has been real in the past.
It's also worth knowing Forlini is currently the Republican candidate for Michigan Secretary of State — running, in effect, against the very office responsible for verifying his claims.
Pennsylvania: County by County
In Pennsylvania, activist Scott Presler has spent weeks requesting non-juror lists from all 67 of the state's counties — the same jury-disqualification records at the center of Michigan's fight — and has threatened legal action against counties that decline to hand them over, citing public-records law. As of this week, Presler says Dauphin and Indiana counties have both confirmed non-citizens on their non-juror lists, and Delaware County has agreed to an in-person inspection of its records.
As with Michigan, Presler hasn't yet published the underlying numbers or had them independently verified by a state authority — this is still an early-stage, county-by-county effort, not a finished audit.
The Bigger Picture — and What "Audit" Actually Means
These findings land alongside other recent claims: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's administration has acknowledged roughly 6,600 non-citizens on the state's voter rolls, with about 400 having voted; the Trump administration has put New Jersey's real number far higher, near 35,000.
Not every state is finding the same thing, though — and the differences come down to method, not just geography. Utah completed its own comprehensive citizenship review of its voter rolls in May, examining more than 2.06 million registered voters. The final count: 27 confirmed non-citizens removed from the rolls, another 25 flagged as "probable" non-citizens given 30 days to prove otherwise, and 5,007 registrants whose citizenship status the state could not confirm either way.
It's worth being precise about what that review actually was. Utah's own summary states plainly that prior to a new law passed this year, the state never required proof of citizenship to register — voters simply checked a box and signed. The 2026 review didn't go back and demand documents from 2 million people; it cross-referenced voter rolls against the state's Driver License Division records, then ran unresolved names through the federal SAVE database.
That DMV data isn't uniformly document-verified either. Utah only requires actual citizenship or lawful-presence documentation for REAL ID applicants and non-citizen "limited-term" license holders — both relatively recent requirements. Older, standard licenses issued before those checks existed can still carry citizenship status that was never verified against a document at all, just self-attested at the counter. That gap is a plausible part of why 5,007 voters came back unconfirmed: the record being checked against wasn't necessarily any more verified than the voter roll itself.
That's a materially different process from what Louisiana and a handful of other states require: photo ID, birth certificate or passport, and proof of residency in the specific voting district, checked at the point of registration — before a name ever goes on the rolls, not years later via database matching. A retroactive cross-check of one self-attested system against another self-attested system will structurally find less than a front-end documentary requirement, regardless of how many people are on it.
None of that means Utah's 27 confirmed cases, or Michigan's, or Pennsylvania's, tell the whole story on their own. It means the method matters as much as the headline number — and "we audited it and found almost nothing" depends entirely on what the audit was actually built to catch.
Where the SAVE Act Stands
Sen. Mike Lee's SAVE America Act — which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a federal ballot — passed the House 218-213 in February and has stalled in the Senate ever since. Republicans hold 50 votes, short of the 60 needed to break a Democratic filibuster. President Trump has pushed to eliminate the filibuster to force it through; Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said the votes for that aren't there either.
Findings like Michigan's and Pennsylvania's are exactly the kind of ammunition both sides will point to heading into the fall — supporters as proof the problem is real and undercounted, opponents as proof that raw, unverified numbers keep getting inflated before they hold up to scrutiny.
Sources:
The Gateway Pundit — Macomb County 1,062 non-citizens report
Michigan Dept. of State — Response to Macomb County clerk's earlier claims
PJ Media — Presler: 2 Pennsylvania Counties Have Non-Citizen Registered Voters
Utah Lt. Governor's Office — Final Citizenship Review Summary (PDF)