MINNESOTA — The Minnesota Secretary of State's Office has received a grand jury subpoena ordering it to turn over certain individual voter records as part of a federal investigation into whether non-citizens are registered or have unlawfully cast ballots.

The investigation is being run by the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Federal prosecutors and investigators are seeking records pertaining to more than 125 individuals. The records the department is seeking do not include the ballots themselves.

No one has been criminally charged to date. The Minnesota Secretary of State's office declined to confirm or deny the issuance of subpoenas, citing grand jury secrecy rules. "While our office does not register voters or administer elections directly, we are committed to supporting the local election officials across our state who do to ensure that our elections continue to be fair, secure, and accurate," the Secretary of State's office said.

In recent months, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have been coordinating law enforcement operations to probe whether non-U.S. citizens are registered or may have voted in past elections. In March 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to probe whether non-citizens remained on voter registration lists.

The civil litigation pending against Minnesota by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is separate from the criminal investigation and seeks to force the state to hand over a complete unredacted voter registration list. The Justice Department is suing dozens of other states and the District of Columbia over the same issue. Between 2004 and 2025, there have been 138 cases involving some sort of voter fraud in Minnesota, according to data compiled by the Heritage Foundation.