Sheriff Leaf Has New Allegations About Noncitizens Voting

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 08/19/2026) Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who maintains there was voter fraud in the 2020 election, has new allegations, claiming in a video that a confidential informant provided him with “evidence” of non-citizens voting.

In his video post to X, Leaf said he’s referred his investigation to the U.S. Department of Justice, and he’s asked the state Legislature to act.

“The confidential informant provided evidence that the Customer and Automotive Record System (CARS) is programmed to congratulate and inform non-citizens that they are registered to vote,” Leaf claims.

The CARS program, which SOS implemented in 2021, has guardrails that do not allow non-citizens to register to vote and if SOS employees wanted to bypass those guardrails, they could not do so.

Angela Benander, chief communications officer for the Secretary of State, said Leaf “has a long record of making wild accusations about our elections that aren’t based in reality.”

She added: “But while he’s making YouTube videos to feed his conspiracy machine, our office has been reviewing our voter rolls, investigating any alleged incidents of non-citizen voting, and referring hard evidence to the Attorney General. Just last week, the AG announced six people are facing charges based on that evidence.”

On Aug. 13, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced five non-citizens were facing criminal charges alleging they voted illegally in the 2024 state elections.