In the two most closely watched elections this week, new claims of voter fraud are popping up. Virginia’s democrat wins and New Jersey’s, especially the mayoral election in Atlantic City, which is being contested, seem as if they mean nothing because thousands of illegal voters have been registered and are voting in these states.

The fight in Atlantic City went to court on Monday over absentee ballots, which election experts say are the most easy to exploit. In addition to deliberate tampering, the nation is at large is highly susceptible to fraud related to close elections.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation has uncovered thousands of non-citizens who have been illegally registered to vote in both Virginia and New Jersey. Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for the election-integrity watchdog stated, “Yes, non-citizens are going to vote in this election.” He added that some are innocent victims of partisan jockeying.

However, if the election system in these states are compromised, there is no republic. People get elected depending on how devious they are in stealing votes.

The Atlantic City race involves incumbent Don Guardian, a republican, against Councilman Frank Gilliam, the democrat challenger. On Monday, Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez ordered that the Board of elections preserve all documentation related to absentee ballots, but he would not allow Guardian to be present when the 6,100 votes are examined.

Guardian is challenging 101 voters registered through the needle-exchange and any others not properly registered, or allowed to vote. The campaign also says that 61 pages worth of voters were illegally provided undisclosed assistance.

So, Guardian hired two private detectives to infiltrate the democrat campaign. One, using a recorder, volunteered for an absentee ballot drive carried out democrats. By turning in the ballot over to a liberal operative, the undercover man received a $30 fee.

Gilliam, like all democrats, denies cheating to win the election.

Churchwell explained that New Jersey only requires a signature to vote on an absentee ballot. Similar concerns surfaced concerning Boston’s City Council race. Two separate community groups said that Mike Kelley’s campaign submitted more than 100 ballots from non-English speaking elderly residents in Chinatown.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation found that 5,556 noncitizens have registered to vote in Virginia since 2011. Of that number, 1,852 were noncitizens who had voted in past elections. In New Jersey, the group uncovered more than 1,000 noncitizens taking part in America’s election process.

Churchwell explained that these numbers may be small, but in a close race, even at the national scale, they could have serious consequences. Democrat Mark Herring defeated Republican Mark Obenshain by fewer than 1,000 votes in the 2013 Virginia attorney general’s race.

Virginia’s response is “’Hey, the system’s working.’”

Apparently, some voters who had participated illegally asked to be removed from the rolls, but those who did not volunteer to give up their registration card are still out there. Because “non-citizens,” not illegal aliens, who vote can lose their green cards, it is outrageous that these states are doing nothing to stop the practice.

Perhaps the president’s election integrity commission can do something about this ongoing travesty. If not, democrats will become more emboldened to steal elections in order to line their pockets.