Staff Reports
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division revealed this week that a federal review of state voter rolls has turned up shockingly large problems: after checking roughly 47.5 million records, the DOJ says it found more than 260,000 deceased individuals still listed as registered voters and several thousand noncitizens enrolled to vote. For hardworking Americans who believe in one person, one vote, those numbers are absolutely unacceptable and demand immediate action from federal and state officials.
The DOJ has not been idly sniffing around — it has moved to compel cooperation, suing multiple states that refused to provide full, unredacted voter registration lists and filing litigation where necessary to force transparency. This is not federal overreach; it is the Justice Department doing its duty to ensure the integrity of our elections when state officials stonewall.
Conservatives have argued for years that sloppy, bloated voter rolls invite fraud and erode confidence, and these findings vindicate those concerns. The fact that many states quickly complied while others dug in their heels reveals the partisan theater at play — some officials are more concerned with protecting their party’s advantage than protecting the franchise.
The left’s predictable objections about privacy and “federal fishing expeditions” ring hollow when the alternative is allowing dead registrants and noncitizens to remain on the rolls. If local officials truly feared privacy breaches, they would work with the DOJ to redress issues securely instead of hiding behind bureaucracy and excuses. Voters deserve better than half-measures and pretexts.
This is about accountability: where evidence of unlawful voting exists, the DOJ says it will partner with local prosecutors to pursue criminal cases, and that’s exactly the kind of enforcement that protects honest citizens. Left unchecked, even a small number of illicit votes can corrode public trust and hand razor-thin outcomes to those who game the system. America’s elections must be beyond doubt, not a playground for sloppy administration or willful neglect.
Let’s be clear — cleaning voter rolls is not a partisan sport, it’s essential governance. The Biden-era enablers and their state allies who refuse to cooperate are doing a disservice to every taxpayer and every veteran who fought for our democratic norms. If the federal government can expose and remove hundreds of thousands of invalid registrants, then officials who resist should explain to their constituents why they would rather shield flawed systems than fix them.
Patriots who love this country must demand that elections be secure, transparent, and fair. Support the DOJ’s work to clean the rolls, pressure recalcitrant secretaries of state to stop playing political games, and insist on prosecutions where lawbreaking is found. Our republic depends on citizens caring enough to defend the sanctity of the ballot against fraud, negligence, and the partisan cover-ups that threaten it.
