The 20 million registrations add up. The noncitizen inference doesn't.

The federal survey backs it. We count about 20.5 million new valid registrations in those 37 states. But "new" means new to a local election office, so someone who moves can count as new.

The map comes from Shiloh Marx, founder and president of Integrity First Alliance¹. It cites the Election Assistance Commission's 2024 survey, which counted 26,185,294 new valid registrations, including the territories, between the close of registration for the 2022 and 2024 general elections².

Take the 12 states Ballotpedia lists with proof-of-citizenship laws³, plus North Dakota, which has no voter registration. The other 37 states reported 20,493,832 new registrations, by our calculation from the EAC's data, within 18,000 of the map's figure⁴. The map's year-by-year counter is its own invention. The survey asks for one two-year total⁵.

A registration counts as new when it doesn't duplicate or modify an existing one "in the jurisdiction"⁵. In most states those are counties. In Wisconsin, municipalities, and in New England, towns⁴. The survey tells offices to count a voter moving in from another county as new, though some states report such moves as updates. Movers from out of state are always new⁵.

None of the 37 required documents then. Only Arizona did up front, so about 25.5 million registered without being required to show them. Every applicant swears to citizenship, and some states check the rolls afterward.

Most of today's 12 laws came later or never took effect. Florida, South Dakota and Utah acted this year, Ohio and Wyoming in 2025³. New Hampshire's took effect six days after the 2024 election⁶. Alabama's and Louisiana's were never put into effect, and a court blocked Kansas's in 2018. Georgia and Mississippi ask for documents only when records can't confirm citizenship⁷.

That leaves Arizona, where registrants who don't prove citizenship can vote only in federal races⁷. In the other 49 states and D.C., about 25.5 million new registrations came in without documents up front, by our calculation⁴. The post's number, if anything, is too small.

Every applicant swears, under penalty of perjury, to being a citizen^7,8. The license number or last four Social Security digits federal law asks for are matched against state or federal records, which confirms identity, not citizenship⁹. Some states now check their rolls against DHS's SAVE database¹⁰. In Utah, 19 of the 27 confirmed noncitizens had license records marking them as noncitizens and were registered anyway¹¹.

Checks find noncitizens rare. DHS says SAVE found "over 28,000 non-citizens who illegally registered to vote" in 68 million records, about 0.04%, but those are flags, not confirmations. Utah confirmed 27 among 2 million.

As of June 22, 25 states had run more than 68 million records through SAVE, 10 of them their full lists, DHS says¹⁰. County officials found citizens among those flagged, some recently naturalized. Others were real noncitizens, added by county error or after mistakenly checking a box¹². DHS's summary didn't say how many, if any, had voted¹⁰.

DHS also says public voter files show "over 250,000 non-citizens" registered in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada¹⁰. All four declined to share their lists for SAVE checks, and all four are among the post's 37. DHS hasn't disclosed its method¹².

Utah checked all 2,069,640 records on its rolls. It confirmed 27 noncitizens, 13 of whom had voted, and listed 25 more as probable¹¹. An older count points the same way. Officials in 42 jurisdictions referred about 30 suspected noncitizen votes out of 23.5 million cast in 2016¹³.