; . 6. Voter protection and security in automatic registration (a) Protections for errors in registration An individual shall not be prosecuted under any Federal or State law, adversely affected in any civil adjudication concerning immigration status or naturalization, or subject to an allegation in any legal proceeding that the individual is not a citizen of the United States for any of the following reasons: (1) The individual notifies an election office of the individual’s automatic registration to vote. (2) The individual is not eligible to vote in elections for Federal office but was automatically registered to vote due to individual or applicable agency error. (3) The individual was automatically registered to vote at an address that is not the correct residential address of the individual. (4) The individual declined the opportunity to register to vote or did not make an affirmation of citizenship when registering to vote, including through automatic registration. (b) Limits on use of automatic registration The automatic registration (as defined in section 5A of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993) of any individual, or the fact that an individual declined the opportunity to register to vote or did not make an affirmation of citizenship (including through automatic registration), may not be used as evidence against that individual in any State or Federal law enforcement proceeding or any civil adjudication concerning immigration status or naturalization, and the lack of knowledge or willfulness of the individual in such registration may be demonstrated by the testimony of the individual alone. (c) Protection of election integrity Nothing in subsection (a) or (b) shall be construed to prohibit or restrict any action under color of law against an individual who— (1) knowingly and willfully makes a false statement to effectuate or perpetuate automatic voter registration by any individual