Democrats have spent years insisting noncitizen voting is a myth invented by people who don’t trust elections.
Republicans just pulled the receipts.
And what they found is going to leave many people furious.
Hundreds of Noncitizens Found Across All 21 Counties
The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) requested voter rolls from all 21 counties in New Jersey and turned up hundreds of noncitizens registered to vote, according to documents obtained through public records requests and first reported by Fox News Digital.
Most of those noncitizens were registered as Democrats.
The records show these individuals were not caught by the state. They came forward on their own, mostly because they were pursuing U.S. citizenship and feared that showing up on a voter roll would torpedo their naturalization applications. Noncitizens cannot legally vote in state or federal elections.
In Atlantic County alone, Fox News Digital reviewed more than 50 documents from noncitizens attesting they were registered to vote without knowing it. Official letters from Atlantic County Superintendent of Elections and Commissioner of Registration Maureen Bugdon certified that noncitizens walked into her office asking to be taken off the rolls.
One of those letters read: “Please allow this letter to confirm that on today’s date, the below referenced individual came before this office to confirm her registration and voter status. She relayed that she did not wish to be a New Jersey registered voter and does not understand how she became registered through the Department of Motor Vehicles, allegedly.”
That last word — “allegedly” — tells you something. Even the noncitizens themselves couldn’t explain how they ended up registered. The finger keeps pointing back to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Some of Them Actually Voted
Most of the letters confirmed the noncitizens in question had no voting history. But not all of them.
According to county records, one noncitizen who was removed from the rolls in 2015 had voted multiple times, including in elections in 2000, 2001, and the 2008 general election. Another noncitizen had voted in a municipal election in 2000 and a primary election in 2005.
According to the NJGOP, at least 30 cases provided proof of noncitizens voting in prior elections across several years.
Think about that. People who had no legal right to cast a ballot were on the rolls for over a decade, voting in elections, and nobody in New Jersey’s Democrat-run election apparatus caught it. Nobody flagged it. Nobody cleaned it up. The only reason any of this surfaced is because the noncitizens themselves got scared and came forward.
RNC Chair: “Just the People That Have Self-Reported”
RNC Chairman Joe Gruters did not mince words about what the New Jersey findings mean for the rest of the country.
“I mean, it’s really incredible because here the Democrats are saying that, you know, noncitizens never vote, [that], this is a non-issue, but every county we’re finding people that are self-reporting now, and I’m glad we’re doing these records request because it’s really eye-opening, because this is just the people that have self-reported,” Gruters told Fox News Digital.
Read that again. These are only the noncitizens who came forward voluntarily. The ones who didn’t come forward, who have no naturalization application to protect, who have no reason to self-report — they’re still out there, and nobody knows how many there are.
Gruters said the hundreds found in New Jersey are likely only the tip of the iceberg, and that Democrat-run states are unwilling to disclose information about their voter registration list maintenance processes. The RNC has requested that information from 48 states.
“We have staffers already in 17 states working on these issues to make sure that, like I said, it goes back to having a safe and secure election that’s free and fair,” he said.
New Jersey GOP Chair: No Reliable System to Catch This
New Jersey Republican Party Chairwoman Christine Giordano Hanlon put the scope of the problem plainly.
“We have just begun our analysis and already uncovered hundreds of instances of non-citizens placed on New Jersey’s voter rolls over the past few years. With more records still outstanding, these findings are likely only the beginning,” Hanlon said.
And she didn’t stop there. “In New Jersey, there is currently no reliable process to consistently identify non-citizens who have been registered to vote. This undermines confidence in the system and highlights the need for stronger safeguards to ensure only eligible voters are registered.”
No reliable process. In a state that Democrats have controlled entirely for years. A state that has the governor’s mansion, the legislature, and the election machinery all locked up under one party — and apparently no system to keep foreign nationals off the voter rolls.
New Jersey’s Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill’s office did not return a request for comment. Neither did the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission nor Atlantic County officials.
The Motor Voter Problem Nobody Wants to Fix
The New Jersey MVC’s spokesman pushed back, saying the agency uses “rigorous processes” to ensure eligible individuals register through the MVC and that instances involving noncitizens are “exceedingly rare.”
But “exceedingly rare” doesn’t square with hundreds of documented cases across all 21 counties, with the review still ongoing. The documents point repeatedly to the MVC as the apparent pipeline. Noncitizens who can legally obtain driver’s licenses in New Jersey apparently ended up on voter rolls as a result of that interaction — and the state had no mechanism to catch it.
This is exactly the problem the SAVE Act was designed to fix. The House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require documented proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections. It is a commonsense measure to ensure that only American citizens decide American elections. Democrats in the Senate have resisted it, and the New Jersey findings show precisely why that resistance is so hard to defend.
New Jersey Republicans in the state legislature have already introduced resolutions urging the U.S. Senate to pass the legislation.
The Bigger Picture
What happened in New Jersey didn’t happen because of some elaborate scheme. It happened because the system was sloppy, the state never built a reliable way to catch the problem, and nobody in charge had any particular incentive to look.
And the people who got caught are, by definition, the ones who cared enough about becoming citizens to come clean. The ones who didn’t care — who had no naturalization application at risk — had every reason to stay quiet and stay registered.
Gruters also tied the New Jersey findings to a broader fight over how elections get counted, with the Supreme Court preparing to weigh Watson v. RNC, a challenge to laws that allow ballots cast by mail on Election Day to be counted days later. He said a win in that case could be “one of our biggest election victories ever.”
Millions of Americans have raised serious questions about election integrity for years. Democrats and their media allies have dismissed every single concern as paranoia. But the paperwork coming out of New Jersey is real. The voting histories are real. The noncitizens who walked into election offices asking to be removed are real.
And if this is what Republicans found just by asking for the records in one state — imagine what’s sitting untouched in the other 47.
Sources: Fox News Digital; Just the News; Townhall; American Almanac; New Jersey Legislature (SJR87, AJR164); Library of Congress Congressional Research Service