In an election season already fraught with questions, the stunningly tight margins in multiple House races across the nation have laid bare a critical vulnerability: the left’s casual dismissal of noncitizen voting as 'rare' and therefore insignificant.
Image CreditAnthonyTPope/Wikimedia COmmons / CC By-SA 4.0Consider North Carolina’s 5th congressional district, where a mere 99 votes separate the candidates. Democrat Chuck Hubbard currently holds a slim lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx. This isn't an isolated incident; in North Carolina's 3rd district, Republican Rep. Greg Murphy leads by just 233 votes. Elsewhere, Minnesota’s 2nd District sees Democrat Jake Johnson ahead of Republican Rep. Brad Finstad by 321 votes, and in Tennessee’s 4th, Democrat Victoria Broderick is narrowly ahead of Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais by only 280 votes.
These razor-thin outcomes are precisely why the presence of even a few hundred illegal ballots cannot be ignored. Just this past July, New Jersey's Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit a 'software error' had led to the registration of over 6,000 noncitizens who had identified themselves as such when applying for driver’s licenses. Nearly 400 of these illegally registered individuals actually cast ballots.
Think about that for a moment: 400 illegal votes. That figure is more than triple the margin dividing the North Carolina 5th congressional race. While there's no evidence noncitizens voted in these specific uncalled races, the New Jersey scandal is a chilling reminder that the left’s narrative—that noncitizen voting is too 'rare' to matter—is not just wrong, it's dangerously naive or willfully ignorant.
For years, Democrats and their cheerleaders in the corporate media have insisted that noncitizen voting is nothing but a phantom menace, a right-wing conspiracy. Last month, on national television, CBS News’ Leslie Stahl, confronting then-Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, dismissively declared, "There are very few people who are noncitizen who end up voting. Very, very few." Stahl then had the audacity to ask Dhillon, "what’s the purpose" of holding those noncitizens accountable.
Politico, another stalwart of the establishment press, likewise branded concerns about noncitizen voting as "overblown." Yet, when New Jersey’s thousands of illegally registered voters came to light, Politico suddenly found itself admitting the uncomfortable truth: that under our current system, there is "little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake."
And there it is. The truth about America’s electoral vulnerability. Under the current 'honor system,' prospective voters merely attest, under penalty of perjury, that they are citizens. Republicans attempted to address this gaping hole with the SAVE America Act, which would have required documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, alongside voter ID requirements. Democrats vehemently opposed this common-sense legislation, and weak Republican Senate leadership failed to push it through.
The difference between 'rare' and 'significant' is now staring us in the face with every nail-biting vote count. In North Carolina’s 5th congressional district, 99 votes can swing control of a House seat. Tight races don’t make election integrity less vital; they make it absolutely essential. This week’s photo-finish congressional battles only underscore the urgent need for legislation like the SAVE America Act. That it remains unpassed is a dereliction of duty by those who claim to protect our republic.
American democracy hinges on the principle of one citizen, one legal vote. To allow illegal ballots to potentially decide the fate of our representatives is a profound betrayal of public trust and a direct assault on the integrity of our nation. It is time to secure our elections and put America First, ensuring that only legal citizens determine the future of our great country.
