That Thing Democrats Say Never Happens Just Happened Again In California

This is the point conservatives have been making for years while Democrats called it a conspiracy theory. The system doesn’t just make noncitizen voting possible. As Essayli put it, it allows it to happen “easily.” You don’t need to be clever. You don’t need to scheme. You just need to live in California, interact with a government system that automatically registers you, and not actively correct the error.

Rivera Flores faces federal charges. He is presumably one of the cases the 1,000 DOJ election monitors deploying for November are supposed to deter and catch. And his arrest lands in the same week that Virginia found 6,531 admitted noncitizens on its voter rolls, that Alaska sent verification letters to 3,000 suspicious registrations, and that the DOJ’s earlier press release documented a pattern of noncitizen voter fraud cases stretching across multiple states.

California has aggressively resisted federal efforts to examine its voter rolls. The state’s attorney general is in court fighting the USPS mail ballot tracking requirement. Governor Newsom signed a law this month named after the journalist most actively exposing the state’s fraud problems. And the state has automatic motor voter registration that — as the New Jersey case confirmed — can place noncitizens on the rolls without any meaningful verification.