Michael Smerconish, a CNN host, says he was wrong to state that noncitizens or “illegal immigrants” voting “never happens,” following new details from New Jersey. According to reporting cited by multiple outlets, New Jersey’s system recorded about 6,600 registrations attributed to noncitizens due to a software error. Smerconish acknowledges that the error undermines his earlier blanket claim and says he cannot continue using language that suggests such incidents never occur. The accounts describe the issue as a registration system problem rather than evidence that noncitizens successfully voted in large numbers. Instead, the focus is on how a technical mistake can produce misleading records and how that affects public statements about the frequency of noncitizen voting. The outlets present the correction as a revision of the host’s prior assertion in light of the state’s reported data and the explanation that the figures stem from an error in the registration process.