Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he is launching an official investigation into Democrat-linked nonprofit organizations in Texas that are allegedly registering non-citizens to vote.

As American Greatness reported on Monday,  rumors that Democrats had set up tables outside of several Department of Motor vehicles (DMV) offices to register noncitizens to vote in the Fort Worth area, prompted several Republican officials in Texas, including Paxton, to issue statements saying they would look into it.

On Sunday, a source told Fox Business host Maria Bartiramo that his wife had been to three DMVs in Ft. Worth and Weatherford, Texas, and witnessed long lines of noncitizens waiting to get drivers licenses and registering to vote at tables set up outside.

The source said the DMV in Weatherford had “a massive line of immigrants getting licenses and had a tent and table outside the front door of the DMV registering them to vote!”

The second office in in Fort Worth also had long lines of illegal immigrants and the “same lines and same Dems out front,” he said.  “Third one was in North Fort Worth had no lines but had same voter registration drive.”

Paxton said in a press release Wednesday that investigators from the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Unit confirmed that various NGOs were indeed giving voter registration forms to people at DMV locations.

“The investigation has already confirmed that various nonprofit organizations have been located outside Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Driver License offices, operating booths offering to assist in voter registration for persons doing business at the driver’s license offices,” Paxton said.

“But all citizens have already been presented an opportunity to register to vote as part of the process of renewing or being issued an identification card or driver’s license, so there is no obvious need to assist citizens to register to vote outside DPS offices—calling into question the motives of the nonprofit groups,” the Texas AG added.

Paxton said the undercover operations were conducted throughout several major metropolitan areas of Texas and are ongoing.

Texans are deeply troubled by the possibility that organizations purporting to assist with voter registration are illegally registering noncitizens to vote in our elections. If eligible citizens can legally register to vote when conducting their business at a DPS office, why would they need a second opportunity to register with a booth outside?

My office is investigating every credible report we receive regarding potential criminal activity that could compromise the integrity of our elections. The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens, and without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level. It is a crime to vote—or to register to vote—if you are not a United States Citizen. Any wrongdoing will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Paxton said it is also a crime in Texas to help someone lie about their citizenship when they register to vote.

“You can be sentenced up to two years in a state jail and pay up to a $10,000 fine,” he said.  “It is a crime to vote in Texas if you are not a United States Citizen and a Texas Resident, or to help someone vote who is not. You can be sentenced up to 20 years in prison and pay up to a $10,000 fine.”

During an appearance on the Chris Salcedo Show, Paxton explained why it was so suspicious that Democrat NGOs had set up voter registration booths outside the DMVs.

“If you’re a citizen of the United States, you don’t need a secondary place to go register on DPS property with a nonprofit,” he said. “You would register inside the DPS office. That’s the normal process. If you’re not a citizen and you can’t get registered there, then that’s the only reason there’d be a secondary location with a nonprofit.”

Paxton told Salcedo that the investigation is ongoing and they are trying to find out how many places in Texas Democrat operatives are registering noncitizens to vote.