On July 16, President Trump gave a long and detailed speech describing various ways noncitizens are impacting American elections and violating our sacred right to determine the political future of our own country.

Democrats roundly dismissed the president’s speech, called him a liar, and mocked his obsession with voter fraud.

But just days after the Trump speech, The Thing That Never Happens happened again, as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that more than 6,600 noncitizens had been added to the state’s voter rolls, and 400 of them actually voted in elections going back to 2023.

The real number of noncitizens in New Jersey who are registered to vote could actually be much higher, as DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced their records matched with as many as 19,500 noncitizens on publicly available voter registration records for New Jersey.

Unfortunately, we may never know, because Gov. Sherrill has announced that she’ll be doing her own investigation and has, so far, refused to make the state voter rolls available to the Department of Justice.

Gov. Sherrill is now downplaying the 400 noncitizens found to have voted in New Jersey elections, claiming they have “no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed” by the improper votes.

Wait a minute.

First, it was impossible to register noncitizens to vote, because it’s illegal. Then, it was impossible for noncitizens to vote if they were accidentally registered, because it’s already illegal. Now, hundreds of noncitizens have voted, but they have not influenced any elections?

• In 2023, a New Jersey township school district bond referendum was decided by one vote.
• The Trenton City Council president, Jenna Figueroa Kettenburg, was first elected in 2024 by one vote.
• A Toms River, New Jersey, fire commissioner election was certified as a tie in March 2025.
• A council seat in Oakland Borough, New Jersey, resulted in a tie in December 2025.

There are actually numerous cases in New Jersey during this “software glitch” period where elections have come down to handfuls of votes: Bogota mayor determined by seven votes in 2023; Roselle Councilwoman won by 16 votes in 2025; and a New Jersey State Assembly Democratic primary was decided by 36 votes in 2025.

These are real races that have real impact on people’s lives – and they were all decided by three dozen votes or less.

Gov. Sherrill has no standing to declare that noncitizen voters have had no impact on elections in which they weren’t even supposed to be able to participate. How many more noncitizens are voting that New Jersey hasn’t been forced to admit yet?

She also has no credibility on which to attack former Gov. Murphy for lack of transparency and accountability, when she refuses the DOJ access to the state’s voter rolls.

The fact is that noncitizens are registering to vote, they are voting, and there are numerous instances – in just one state – of elections resulting in ties or very tight margins.

But there are election issues currently going on across the country, which is why American citizens are struggling to have faith in our elections.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission has opened an investigation into Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys’ repeated instances of printing duplicate mail-in ballots for this year’s April and August elections, prompting Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich to place the clerk on administrative leave.

Carson City, Nevada, Clerk-Recorder Scott Hoen has had to explain to that city’s Board of Supervisors why some local election primary candidates were left off their June ballots entirely, pushing those uncontested candidates directly to the November general election.

This most recent ballot error comes after Carson City mail-in voters received ballot packets in 2024 with an independent candidate listed incorrectly as a Democrat, and listed some drop-off locations that did not exist.

In 2025, Chester County, Pennsylvania, elections employees left more than 75,000 unaffiliated or third-party voters off their printed voter lists at polling places, causing about 12,600 people to cast provisional ballots, amounting to 6.4% of the municipal election’s vote total.

The problem in each of these instances is that voters may not learn of “mistakes” or “irregularities” until later, impacting citizens’ right to vote. Yet the left, so quick to cry “voter suppression” over common-sense safeguards like voter ID, is strangely silent over these problems that actually do disenfranchise or discourage voters.

So, the question that needs to be asked of Democrats is why do they oppose transparency in our elections? Why do they fight so hard against universally popular measures like voter ID and removing noncitizens from the voter rolls that would help prevent noncitizen voting? 

American elections are for American citizens only. Every Democrat running for election this year should be asked how they feel about noncitizens voting in our elections.