So-called 'motor voter' programs that have been popular in many states for decades are also paving the way for more illegal voters. That is the conclusion of a report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which looked at DMV voter registration programs across several states. The findings reveal thousands of non-citizens have been added to voter rolls through motor vehicle offices. "A faulty motor voter system facilitates alien registration and then voting," says J. Christian Adams, president of PILF, in recent testimony before Congress.
The PILF report found many states have been mass registering voters through the DMV without bothering to check citizenship status. "We discovered this most dramatically in Pennsylvania in 2017, where every PennDOT customer was offered voter registration for an estimated two decades, regardless of citizenship," Adams told Congress.
While some states have admitted to registering non-citizens inadvertently and called it a "glitch," Adams says they're also signing up people who told the state they weren't citizens. "My organization has found in California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other states, where applicants actually admitted on their registration form they weren't U.S. citizens (through a checked box) and still got registered to vote," he told Congress.
The report comes as some red states have taken action to clean up their voter rolls. Texas recently removed more than 1 million ineligible voters from its rolls, including more than 6,500 non-citizens. At the same time, other investigations have found similar illegal voter signups happening at welfare offices, leading to more questions about how many illegals are still on voter rolls around the country...and how many may cast ballots in this year's election.