Politico Just Admitted What Democrats Have Been Denying for Years — It’s Too Easy For Non-Citizens To Vote

Politico adds that election officials from both parties believe New Jersey’s 6,600 figure dramatically understates the actual problem — because the automatic registration system has been running since 2018, and Sherrill’s disclosure covered only a single year. The cumulative total of noncitizens swept onto New Jersey’s voter rolls through eight years of automatic registration is unknown. The state is refusing to hand over the data that would answer that question.

And it’s not just New Jersey. Ada Ngozi Otuka, a British national living in Texas, registered and voted in five separate American elections between 2012 and 2024. She didn’t get caught by the system. She confessed on her naturalization application. The system never flagged her. The honor system held exactly as well as honor systems typically hold — which is to say, not at all when someone decides not to honor it.

Brit Hume said what everyone already knows: “Maybe it’s time for commentators and politicians to stop scoffing at people worried about noncitizens voting in US elections.”

The scoffing has been deliberate. Every time a conservative raised concerns about election integrity, the media deployed a coordinated dismissal — no evidence, rare if at all, you’re a conspiracy theorist, you’re trying to suppress votes. That dismissal required the public to ignore the New Jerseys and the Ada Ngozi Otukas and the 270,000 noncitizen registrations identified across four cooperating states. It required trusting that the honor system was sufficient to protect the most important civic act in a democracy.

It wasn’t. It isn’t. And Politico just said so.