The midterm elections will be upon us before we know it, and the U.S. Department of Justice is putting in some effort to make sure those elections are on the up and up. To that end, the DOJ is launching a nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls – to make sure that only people legally eligible to vote are doing so. Seems like an intuitive kind of thing that everyone should be in favor of, doesn’t it?
The Trump Justice Department has launched a nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections, pushing states to purge duplicate and outdated registrations and catch any non-citizens or illegal aliens who slipped into a position to vote, officials told Just the News on Saturday.
Notifications have gone out to several states and localities that DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has been concerned that states aren’t complying with federal laws, including California, Wisconsin, Utah and New Hampshire.
“Unlike the previous administration, at President Trump’s DOJ, we will fight to have fair and secure elections – and that begins with making our voter rolls accurate,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News.
We should note that every such effort has been opposed by Democrats. It’s inexplicable that anyone would stand in opposition to simply verifying the integrity of our voter registries; but then, the Democrats also oppose any effort to ensure that voters should have to identify themselves before casting a vote, even though these same Democrats have no issue with someone having to present an ID to buy a bottle of booze, or to cash a check.
It sure looks like all this boils down to one thing: The right is for honest elections. The left is not.
The integrity of voter rolls has been a major focus of conservative election integrity lawyers as a growing number of states report they have found small numbers of non-citizens slipping onto their rolls. For instance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last month announced a probe into over 100 potential noncitizens who cast over 200 ballots in prior elections.
In addition, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel recently declassified documents showing the bureau failed to fully investigate intelligence that Communist China sought to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Now, some on the left will decry these numbers, claiming that only 100 “potential noncitizens” appear to have cast illegal ballots. That’s a canard; the acceptable number of potentially ineligible voters to cast ballots in any election at any level is “zero.” That’s what the Department of Justice seeks to ensure. That’s what Democrats oppose.
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One review has already identified one of the worst states as far as the integrity of voter rolls goes: New York.
According to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, nearly 50,000 registrants on New York’s voter list are registered in at least one other state. About half of those — 24,873 registrants — are also registered in Florida. Another 6,247 have duplicate registrations in North Carolina, and another 5,724 are also on New Jersey’s voting rolls.
PILF’s review stated 6,788 cases of duplicate or triplicate registrations were found at the same residential addresses because of name variations, typographical errors, or missing Social Security data. The mess includes 3,845 registrants with placeholder or likely false birth dates going back to the turn of the 20th century.
This is a mess, and it may well not be completely cleaned up before the 2026 midterms – or even the 2028 general election. But the effort should go forward regardless; every ineligible voter stricken from the list is a step towards the public once more having a degree of confidence in our nation’s elections.
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