New Jersey is known as the Garden State, and honestly, if you get out of Newark or any of the other cities into the western and northern parts of the state, you really can see why. But New Jersey's main garden crop these days seems to be questionable voter registrations. We have now learned that not only were noncitizens on the voter rolls in New Jersey, but some appear to actually have voted.
Noncitizens in a key blue state were on the voter rolls for years — and some even voted in prior elections, according to documents obtained via public records request.
The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) requested voter rolls from all 21 counties in the Garden State and found multiple instances of noncitizens seeking naturalization asking to be removed from the rolls, claiming they were unknowingly registered to vote. Most were registered as Democrats.
Noncitizens cannot vote in state or federal elections, and the candidates for citizenship worried that being on the rolls would disqualify them.
Most were registered as Democrats. You don't say.
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And, yes, some of them have voted, which Democrats claim doesn't happen.
One noncitizen, who the county said was removed from the rolls in 2015, voted several times in 2000 and 2001, and in the 2008 general election. Another voted in a primary election in 2005 and a municipal election in 2000.
This seems tailor-made to allow cheating. Noncitizens who are legal residents are allowed to obtain driver's licenses, and that's appropriate, but the fact that many of them seem to have been registered to vote during that process, well, we could ascribe that to incompetence on the part of the people who are processing these voter registrations - or we could, if it wasn't for the "most were registered as Democrats" claim. That's suspicious, to say the least, and begs a question as yet unanswered: What percentage of these noncitizens were registered as Democrats, compared to New Jersey's legal voters?
Ay, that's the rub. And it sure looks like many of these people didn't even know they were registered to vote, which makes matters even more suspicious.
In Atlantic County alone, Fox News Digital reviewed more than 50 documents from noncitizens attesting that they were registered to vote unknowingly.
RNC Chairman Joe Gruters says the group found hundreds of noncitizen registrants in New Jersey who are likely only the tip of the iceberg, but that New Jersey and other Democrat-run states are unwilling to disclose information about their voter registration list maintenance processes. The organization has requested that information from 48 states.
"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.
That's how it seems to be with Democrats these days; something is never a problem until it is. Even then, it isn't a problem, as long as it benefits Democrats. Principals, not principles.
And it may be belaboring the obvious to note that the nonresidents who claim to now even have known they were registered wouldn't have cast ballots - themselves. But could someone have done so on their behalf?
Investigations like this are casting doubt on our entire election process, and we have midterms this fall - some of the most consequential midterms in our history. That is, to say the least, downright unsettling.
Editor’s Note: Republicans are fighting for election integrity by requiring proper identification to vote.
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