WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on vot­ing error that ‘keeps hap­pen­ing’ as huge num­ber of nonci­t­i­zens found on rolls

Fire­brand con­ser­v­a­tive Sen. Mike Lee, R‑Utah, slammed both Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans who have resist­ed pas­sage of the SAVE Amer­i­ca Act after a report found that 30,000 nonci­t­i­zens were “mis­tak­en­ly” reg­is­tered to vote in states across the coun­try since 2000.Reuters report­ed on Wednes­day that more than 30,000 self-declared nonci­t­i­zens were added to U.S. vot­er rolls since 2000. The out­let attrib­uted the erro­neous reg­is­tra­tions to “soft­ware glitch­es and cler­i­cal errors” and said that its review sug­gest­ed “inad­ver­tent bureau­crat­ic fail­ures, ‌rather than orga­nized efforts to reg­is­ter immi­grants ille­gal­ly.” The out­let said that this raised “ques­tions about whether leg­isla­tive efforts to require proof of cit­i­zen­ship for vot­er reg­is­tra­tion would elim­i­nate the issue.“However, while speak­ing on the Sen­ate floor on Wednes­day, Lee, who intro­duced the SAVE Amer­i­ca Act ear­li­er this year, said that “even though we have laws that pro­hib­it thing …