Concerns Mount Over Noncitizens Registered to Vote Across US

Revelations that thousands of noncitizens were found on New Jersey’s voter rolls—and that hundreds cast ballots illegally—have raised questions about the extent of the problem, how long it has persisted, and how it can be remedied.
President Donald Trump’s recent national address on election integrity thrust the noncitizen-voting issue into the national spotlight.
He said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote.
Investigators from the Trump administration tallied 250,000 of those unqualified registrants in four “blue,” or Democrat-led, states: California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Across 23 other states—predominantly Republican-governed—investigators found 28,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters. The agency also identified 400,000 deceased people still registered to vote, he said….

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