{"id":5888,"date":"2026-10-13T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/doj-charges-16-in-election-crimes-across-11-districts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:10:11","slug":"doj-charges-16-in-election-crimes-across-11-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/doj-charges-16-in-election-crimes-across-11-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Charges 16 in Election Crimes Across 11 Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal prosecutors announce new election-related charges nationwide, including a Missouri case involving allegations of illegal voting over two decades. WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 13, 2026 (STL.News) DOJ \u2013 Charges \u2013 Election Crimes \u2013 The U.S. Department of Justice has announced federal election-related charges involving 16 individuals across 11 federal judicial districts, including a Missouri case in which prosecutors allege a noncitizen voted in at least 15 elections over approximately 20 years. The charges, announced Monday, October 12, involve allegations of unlawful voting by noncitizens, false declarations of U.S. citizenship, voting more than once in the same election, attempting to<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/doj-charges-16-in-election-crimes-across-11-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors announce new election-related charges nationwide, including a Missouri case involving allegations of illegal voting over two decades. WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 13, 2026 (STL.News) DOJ \u2013 Charges \u2013 Election Crimes \u2013 The U.S. Department of Justice has announced&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}