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A National Role Model: Louisiana’s Indictment of Non-Citizen Voter Can Teach Other States

Elizabeth Schlueter | Don Palmer

Secure elections begin with accurate voter rolls. Creating these voter rolls requires public servants dedicated to election integrity. After her string of recent successes with the use of the federal SAVE databases and passage of an enhanced voter ID law, other states could take some pointers from Louisiana Secretary of State, Nancy Landry.  

Landry was pivotal in Louisiana’s adoption of the revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database in May 2025, when it became the first state to do so. Commenting on its results in an X post, Landry stated: “Preliminary results of an ongoing investigation into noncitizens on our state’s voter registration list show that 390 noncitizens were registered in Louisiana. Of those, 79 voted in at least one election.”  

Since the state’s change, Louisiana voters are seeing signs of improved election integrity as illegal voters from the past are brought to justice. Take the case of Australian national Denise Nataly Migliore. On June 11, 2026, the 51-year-old legal permanent resident of Franklinton, Louisiana was charged with four counts pertaining to election fraud.  

According to the indictment, Migliore fraudulently purported to be a citizen in order to register and vote in the federal 2022 and 2024 elections,........

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