The case of 6,600 noncitizens voting in New Jersey may be the tip of the iceberg.
By Catholics for Catholics
The announcement of New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s regarding 6,600 ineligible voters found on the state’s rolls, is merely the most recent in a decades-long string of cases implicating noncitizens registered to vote in U.S. elections, records show.
Ineligible voters, Sherill said, were registered due to a “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System. Her revelation came within a week of a major address from President Donald Trump in which he cautioned that digital election interference posed a “cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy.”
Though New Jersey is the most recent verified failure, it is not an isolated incident. New Jersey’s error adds to a 25-year record of state reviews, software failures and prosecutions that found noncitizens on voter rolls and, in some documented cases, casting ballots, according to a story by Fox News.
Experts say the episodes establish a recurring vulnerability. However, due to the lack of a national standard for identifying and reporting errors, reviews are sporadic and use different methods, making it impossible to determine how widespread the problem truly is.
“It’s a major vulnerability,” Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative think tank the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital. “And we have seen just within the last couple of years many states that have checked their voter rolls and found non-citizens on them … So, this is a big problem.”
New Jersey election worker lets NONCITIZEN vote in the 2021 gubernational race. This was all caught on camera by Project Veritas. NJ has some serious election fraud and corruption going on.
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Snead elucidated that though states are required by law to ensure their voter rolls are up-to-date and accurate, there is no standard federal obligation for a state to reveal its findings. He said that this has led to differences across states in how the law is applied and how errors are reported.
“There are federal requirements to maintain clean and accurate voter rolls. And of course, it is a federal crime for a noncitizen to register and to vote, but there’s no requirement that a state report how many non-citizens that they have found up to the federal government. That’s entirely a state law question,” he explained.
Snead contended that problems entangling noncitizen voting are greater in blue states due to policies he said make it easier to cheat.
“When you look at the policies that are pushed in blue states by the left, things like automatic voter registration, giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, banning voter identification laws, no proof of citizenship to vote on and on and, this is the inevitable outcome of all of those policies,” said Snead, adding, “This is not the first time that we’ve seen a state with automatic voter registration add potential non-citizens to the rolls.”
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