Harmeet Dhillon — Trump’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and one of the few people in Washington who actually does her job — went on Maria Bartiromo’s show this weekend and casually dropped a bombshell. The Department of Justice reviewed 60 million voter records across the country and found at least 350,000 dead people still registered to vote.
Three hundred and fifty thousand. Dead. On the rolls. Right now. But yeah, tell us again how election integrity concerns are a “conspiracy theory.”
These aren’t hypothetical vulnerabilities in a think-tank white paper. These are actual deceased human beings whose names are sitting in active voter databases across America, ready to receive a mail-in ballot that nobody’s going to check too carefully. And if you think nobody’s ever taken advantage of that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn and a timeshare in Cancun I’d like to sell you.
Dhillon didn’t stop there. The DOJ also referred approximately 25,000 people with no citizenship records to the Department of Homeland Security. Twenty-five thousand people who are registered to vote and can’t prove they’re American citizens. In what universe is that acceptable?
“The Left told us this never happens and it’s a myth,” Dhillon said on air. “It definitely happened.”
No kidding.
For years — years — we were told that questioning voter rolls was dangerous. Racist. An attack on democracy itself. Every time a Republican governor tried to clean up the rolls, the ACLU would sprint to the nearest federal courthouse screaming about voter suppression. CNN would run twelve straight hours of panels explaining how the real threat to elections was people who wanted to make sure only living, breathing citizens were casting ballots.
And now Trump’s DOJ has the receipts.
The department has sued 29 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to provide voter roll access. Twenty-nine states. Think about that number. More than half the country is actively resisting federal efforts to verify that their voter rolls are accurate. Dhillon pointed out that many states aren’t even in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act or the Help America Vote Act — laws that have been on the books for decades.
“States are not in compliance, even those ones who want to,” she said.
So the laws requiring clean voter rolls already exist. They’ve existed for years. The previous administration just chose not to enforce them. Weird how that works.
(Almost like they benefited from the mess. But that would be a conspiracy theory, wouldn’t it?)
You want to know how absurd the system is? A woman in California named Laura Lee Yourex registered her dog — her actual dog, named Maya Jean Yourex — to vote. The dog received a mail-in ballot during the 2021 gubernatorial recall election. A golden retriever. Got a ballot. In the mail. For a statewide election.
When a second ballot showed up for the dog during the 2022 primary, it was finally challenged and rejected. Yourex faced five felonies for the stunt, four of which were eventually dismissed. But the fact that a literal canine made it onto the voter rolls and received an official ballot tells you everything you need to know about how seriously these states take election integrity.
Spoiler alert — they don’t.
This is exactly what Trump promised he’d do. He said he’d clean up the elections. He said the system was broken. The media laughed. The Democrats called him a dictator. And now his DOJ is pulling back the curtain and showing the American people exactly what’s been hiding behind it — 350,000 dead voters, 25,000 non-citizens, and 29 states that would rather get sued than let anyone look at their books.
The SAVE Act — the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Common sense, right? You need an ID to buy a beer, rent a car, or board a plane, but asking someone to prove they’re a citizen before they vote in an American election is apparently a step too far for Democrats.
Every single one of them who voted against the SAVE Act owes the American people an explanation. Not a talking point. Not a press release about “voter access.” An actual explanation for why they think 350,000 dead people on voter rolls is an acceptable state of affairs.
We already know the answer, of course. They won’t explain it. They’ll change the subject. They’ll call it racist. They’ll say the real problem is “voter suppression” and hope nobody notices that their definition of suppression is “checking to see if the voter has a pulse.”
Dhillon and the DOJ are doing the work that should have been done a decade ago. Clean the rolls. Enforce the law. Make sure every vote cast in this country comes from a living, breathing, legal American citizen.
That shouldn’t be controversial. The fact that it is tells you everything you need to know about who benefits from the chaos.
