Democrats insist that noncitizens voting is a nonissue. They’re wrong. And they’re lying.
In the parlance of the autopen president, it’s a big (expletive deleted) deal.
Even one illegally cast ballot robs the rightful vote of legal voter. We’ve seen a lot of robbing of late.
You need look no further than New Jersey. In July, Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that the Garden State’s dirty voter rolls included 6,600 noncitizens that had been registered to vote in 2023 and 2024. Sherrill said about 340 of the foreign nationals went on to vote in elections.
At least those are the numbers the leftist governor gave. She’s been less than cooperative in providing the receipts. GOP lawmakers and activists who pushed Sherrill to disclose New Jersey’s voter registration “glitch” believe there are a lot more noncitizens in the system.
“Now, election officials are hiding the records that would tell voters how it happened,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement. “The RNC won’t stand for it. Garden State voters deserve the truth, and we’re taking these left-wing officials to court to demand answers.”
In August, the governor claimed elections officials had removed more than 5,000 ineligible registrants from the voter rolls and referred another 1,450 registrations to county election offices for review.
Wouldn’t you know it, more ineligible voters have popped up. Funny what you find when you bother to look.
But Wait, There’s More …
Last week, Sherrill provided an update on the investigation into the voter registration debacle. She noted that another 750 registrations were sent through to the state’s voter rolls even though the registrants noted on their forms they were not of age to vote. The review found that the individuals were in fact old enough to vote but selected the wrong button on the registration PIN pad. But the errors further expose a flawed system that has allowed thousands of noncitizens and other ineligible individuals to land on the voter rolls.
The review caught another 340 improperly registered individuals. Some 60 were “serving a sentence of incarceration for an indictable offense,” Sherrill acknowledged.
“My Administration continues to move aggressively to fix the serious system error at the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) left behind by the previous administration to ensure our elections remain free, fair, and secure,” the governor said in a press release. “I promised we would be thorough to ensure that no one who is ineligible remains on the voter rolls, and that every eligible voter has their voice heard.”
Republicans aren’t so sanguine about the Sherrill administration’s efforts.
“Every time they look, they find more. New Jerseyans deserve a full accounting of what happened to their voter rolls — not a press release that spins a growing problem as a victory,” the New Jersey Assembly GOP shot back on its Facebook page.
‘One Too Many’
New Jersey’s messy voter rolls scream for voter identification, according to the vast majority of Garden State residents. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released on Tuesday finds more than four in five respondents support or strongly support requiring photo identification to vote in person and documentary proof of citizenship to register.
The results mirror national sentiments.
But Democratic Party politicians stridently stand against the will of the people. And RINOs in the U.S. Senate refuse to fight for the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register and vote in U.S elections.
While Democrats keep pushing the talking point that noncitizens rarely show up on voter rolls, a Reuters review last month found states have added more than 30,000 noncitizens to their registration databases since 2000. Election integrity advocates say that’s an extremely conservative estimate.
The numbers nationwide keep adding up.
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced 16 more people, including an illegal alien, have been charged “in connection with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country.” Most of the accused are noncitizens, the DOJ said in a report, including a woman from New Jersey who prosecutors allege was not U.S. citizen at the time she voted.
In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections on Tuesday said it will send letters to nearly 1,400 registered voters identified as potential noncitizens.
“Maintaining accurate voter rolls and ensuring that only U.S. citizens participate in our elections are fundamental duties of the State Board,” said Sam Hayes, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
“While these registrations represent a small percentage of our voter rolls, one ineligible registrant is still one too many. We have a duty to enforce the law while protecting the rights of every eligible legitimate voter.”
