DOJ Warns States on Noncitizen Voters
Is the DOJ's voter roll crackdown a necessary fix for real election fraud or an intimidation campaign targeting a problem that barely exists?
Above: The DOJ sign outside of the Robert F. Kennedy U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) building in Washington, D.C., July 2. Image credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images
The Spin
Democratic narrative
The DOJ's criminal threat letters to all 50 states are a transparent intimidation campaign built on a problem that doesn't exist — noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare. This is what a losing legal strategy looks like when it pivots to bullying.
Republican narrative
Real cases prove noncitizen voting happens. Blue states refusing to cooperate with voter roll verification are shielding the problem, not solving it. The SAVE Act exists precisely because existing systems have gaps that bad actors exploit.
