For years, American institutions turned a blind eye to aliens on the voter rolls.
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institutions → turn → rolls
Times are changing, and aliens who thought they could get away with voting would be wise to reconsider.
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they → change → voting
Those on the organized left pretended noncitizen voting was a fairy tale.
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voting → pretend → left
They still do.
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They → do → ?
They have been visible to anyone who wanted to ask the right questions.
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who → want → questions
Sanctuary city policies make the problem worse.
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problem → make → ?
There, Elizaveta Shuvalova, a Russian citizen, registered to vote.
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Shuvalova → register → ?
She was registered to vote until she returned an absentee ballot that said, “I am a Russian citizen!”
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I → register → ballot
The Public Interest Legal Foundation documented the relation between California sanctuary city policies to hundreds of aliens ending up on the rolls.
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Foundation → document → rolls
Sanctuary city policies made the problem of aliens registering and voting worse.
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aliens → make → ?
In Oakland, aliens actually told election officials on the voter registration form that they were not citizens, but they were registered anyway.
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they → tell → form
That’s how ridiculous things were before the change in enforcement policies by the Trump administration.
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things → ’ → administration
Aliens begged to be removed from the rolls, because the federal government wasn’t doing its job across the decades.
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government → beg → decades
Over and over, the system broke down.
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system → break → ?
California election laws are notorious for doing everything the opposite of what they should do for clean elections.
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they → do → elections
Automatic registration, automatic mail voting, mail ballots without safeguards — these policies make California elections a mess.
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elections → make → safeguards
Enacting Prop. 39 would be a rare improvement in California elections.
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Enacting → enact → elections
It would ensure mail-in ballots are actually being voted by the proper registered voter and that in-person voters are who they say they are.
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they → ensure → person
Black, white, Democrat, Republican — all have majorities that support Voter ID.
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that → have → ID
Voter ID is an election-law issue that the institutional left is losing.
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left → lose → that
The feds have provided California with data purporting to contain the names of 20,000 possible aliens on the voter rolls.
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feds → provide → rolls
That’s an astounding number, if accurate.
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That → ’ → ?
There are multiple ways that lists of aliens invite false positives.
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lists → be → positives
The “alien” on a list has since naturalized and is now a citizen.
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alien → naturalize → list
The other is that Virginia, for example, removed American citizens because of inconsistent answers to DMV questions.
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Virginia → remove → questions
Accompanying these data is a lawsuit, demanding that California quarantine suspected noncitizens’ ballots — and determine their eligibility before those ballots are counted.
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ballots → accompany → eligibility
Courts have been uniformly hostile to lawsuits that shake up the state of play right before an election.
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that → shake → election
Federal law also has a 90-day freeze where voters cannot be booted off the rolls before an election — and quarantining ballots is likely akin to booting voters from the rolls.
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quarantining → have → rolls
The Supreme Court will decide whether removing noncitizens is a systematic process barred within 90 days of an election.
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removing → decide → election
Speaking from experience, government lists of aliens are often filled with false positives.
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lists → speak → positives
I learned this the hard way when Virginia provided me with a list of over 6,000 “removed as noncitizens,” except they all weren’t noncitizens.
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they → learn → noncitizens
But just because lists of aliens aren’t perfect doesn’t mean governments should ignore the law.
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governments → mean → law
It is commendable that the Trump administration is tackling a longstanding problem.
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administration → tackle → problem
We can get it right and only remove and prosecute actual aliens who are registered and voting.
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who → get → aliens
Predictably, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is responding in a partisan way.
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Newsom → respond → way
He calls the effort to enforce the law “suppression.”
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He → call → law
What is partisan about allowing lawlessness to flourish in elections?
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lawlessness → allow → elections
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