A review of New Jersey’s publicly available voter records has uncovered hundreds of non-citizens registered to vote in 11 of the state’s counties.

In addition to demonstrating the scale of just one of many elements — non-citizen registrants — of the nation’s failure to maintain election integrity, the review found that three-quarters of the non-citizens had revealed their ineligible status to a New Jersey state official, who then presented and accepted the illegal forms anyway.

The study was conducted by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). President J. Christian Adams is PJ Media’s legal editor, and a member of Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

The study covered New Jersey, but similar results should be expected in all 50 states.

The apparent cause of the situation is a consequence of requirements enacted by a federal law: former President Bill Clinton’s National Voter Registration Act of 1993, commonly known as “Motor Voter.” Under “Motor Voter,” state officials are required to offer voter registration forms and to ask citizens if they would like to register during certain interactions. Per the law’s nickname, this most often occurs during a citizen’s visit to a Department of Motor Vehicles.

However, officials in New Jersey — and likely throughout the country — have been presenting voter registration forms to non-citizens.

And in the vast majority of the cases found by the study, this was not accidental: most non-citizens revealed their ineligible status — some even presented green cards — yet were given the forms anyway.

For many of the non-citizens, there is evidence they were not even aware of the form’s purpose.

Most likely due to language issues, they accidentally registered to vote illegally — a felony. They were often not aware until the issue arose during a later naturalization process, when they needed to scramble to avoid a potential deportation.

Per the press release: