How US states mistakenly added 30,000 non-citizens to voter rolls

Key Points:

• Since 2000, over 30,000 self-declared non-citizens may have been mistakenly added to US voter rolls due to software glitches and clerical errors in driver's license and state ID processing across at least a dozen states.
• These errors occur in states governed by both Democrats and Republicans and are considered too few to impact election outcomes significantly; exact numbers of non-citizens who voted remain unclear.
• The findings suggest that bureaucratic mistakes, not organized efforts, are the main cause of non-citizen registrations, challenging claims that requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration would fully resolve the issue.
• The White House supports the SAVE America Act to tighten voter eligibility verification, but experts argue that such legislation would not prevent errors stemming from flawed state processes.
• Non-citizen voter registrations highlight weaknesses in motor-voter systems established under the National Voter Registration Act, with some states inadvertently registering immigrants due to DMV errors involving documentation like foreign passports and birth certificates.