Noncitizen voter registrations found across US states for 25 years

Key Points:

• New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced the removal of 6,600 ineligible voters, mostly noncitizens, from the state's voter rolls due to a software error in the Motor Vehicle System, with fewer than 400 having voted improperly.
• This incident is part of a broader, decades-long pattern across multiple states where noncitizens have been found registered to vote and, in some cases, have cast ballots, revealing a recurring vulnerability in the voter registration system.
• There is no uniform federal mandate requiring states to audit or report noncitizen registrations, leading to inconsistent enforcement and transparency, with some experts linking higher occurrences to policies in certain states that ease voter registration processes.
• Homeland Security reported over 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states, including New Jersey and California, emphasizing that election integrity is a nonpartisan issue requiring cooperation between states and federal authorities.
• Despite ongoing investigations and lawsuits by the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to enforce voter roll accuracy, critics argue that insufficient action has been taken historically to address noncitizen voting and related election security vulnerabilities.