On the eve of today’s election, the U.S. Justice Department announced charges involving 63 individuals in connection with alleged “illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country.”

According to a press release, the cases include voting by illegal aliens in federal elections, false claims of U.S. citizenship to register to vote or to vote, and the fraudulent submission of a voter registration application in another state.

Arrests were made in Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, California, Nevada, Arkansas, Utah, Missouri, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Georgia.

The Georgia arrest was Benito Covarrubias Iniguez, 64, who is described in the press release as “an illegal alien from Mexico charged with making a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to vote in a federal election.”

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft® newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.