Millions of Americans showed up at the polls last month in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, New York City and beyond. But the real story isn’t just voter turnout—it’s how our election system is being undermined again, right before our eyes, despite the good work of conservative states and the Trump Administration.
Earlier this year, President Trump signed Executive Order No. 14,248 to strengthen election integrity by requiring proof of American citizenship to register to vote. But last month, a Clinton-appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C., upheld Democrats’ challenge to this sensible citizenship requirement. In fact, roughly 30 Leftist-controlled jurisdictions have expressly authorized voting by non-citizens in local elections. In addition, some Democrat-controlled states that pretend to prohibit this have practices failing to prevent it.
According to polls, much of Zohran Mamdani’s support for Mayor of New York came from people born outside of the United States. New York City’s enormous population includes over a million adults who are not U.S. citizens, and 800,000 of those would have been eligible to vote if not for a miraculous set of nearly unanimous decisions by the intermediate and highest appellate courts of New York State.
The key battleground state of Pennsylvania ostensibly prohibits non-citizen voting, but the Commonwealth Secretary ordered all of its 67 county boards to ignore voter verification requirements, instead registering any applicant to vote regardless of the legitimacy of his driver’s license or social security number. Pennsylvania officials have admitted that “approximately 100,000 registered voters may potentially be non-citizens,” yet Democrats in Pennsylvania obstruct transparency needed to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.
Meanwhile, not all hope is lost. Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is demanding ballot records from Fulton County, Georgia, from the 2020 election. The Georgia State Election Board is requested DOJ assistance this year to the extent necessary to obtain compliance with election transparency in Fulton County, where Atlanta is located.
The consequences of these local and state election decisions are very real. Federal and state laws must insist on proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Strong chain-of-custody protections for every method of voting must be uniformly enforced. Transparent audits of results must be the rule rather than the exception. When we see laws and practices that water down these safeguards, we must call it what it is: purposeful undermining of election integrity. We must choose to restore our elections.
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