Georgia released an audit of its voter registration system in early September 2026. Auditors reviewed roughly 7.9 million registrations and found the rolls more than 99.9 percent accurate, with no evidence of malicious manipulation. They estimated that no more than 0.1 percent of records would have allowed someone to vote despite an unverified identity, an invalid address, or a citizenship problem.
The audit did find errors, and they are worth stating precisely rather than waving off. About 2,570 potential noncitizens had at some point been placed in active or inactive voter status. Of those, 407 registrations had a voting history. Auditors traced the cause to coding mistakes in the driver's license process at the Department of Driver Services and to county verification failures, not to intentional registration by noncitizens.
That distinction is the finding. The errors are real and the state should fix them. What the audit did not find is the thing Trump has asserted repeatedly, which is organized noncitizen voting at a scale capable of changing outcomes. Georgia's review joins those of nearly two dozen states over the past two years that have looked and found scant evidence for the claim.
The federal government is proceeding on a different premise. On September 1 and 2, reporting described a planned federal voter fraud inquiry in Georgia, and the Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed voter files from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office. A DHS spokesperson said Homeland Security Investigations “is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” and cited more than 24,000 cases identified by the SAVE system as potential noncitizens on voter rolls since April 2025.
The scale of that subpoena should not be overstated. It sought 13 voter files. Gabe Sterling, director of special projects for Raffensperger, called the demand relatively modest against Georgia's more than eight million registered voters and noted that other states have received similar requests.
The SAVE figure deserves the same scrutiny as the audit. A federal court vacated the rebuilt SAVE system in June 2026 as unlawful, and the system's flags have a documented error problem: when Virginia checked, 94 percent of the people SAVE flagged as noncitizens were U.S. citizens. A count of SAVE flags is not a count of noncitizen voters (see The Administration Turned an Immigration Database Into a Voter Citizenship Checker. A Judge Vacated It, and the Supreme Court Put It Back. and Trump's DOJ Is Now 0-for-26 on Voter Roll Lawsuits, Losing Every Resolved Case for Access to States' Voter Rolls).