Voting is sacred. It’s the foundation of our constitutional republic. It’s how “We the People” hold our leaders accountable. And yet, in the most advanced, powerful nation in history, we can’t seem to keep dead people and non-citizens off our voter rolls.
Let that sink in.
In just six days this March, officials in three red or red-leaning states — Missouri, Idaho, and Iowa — found nearly 300,000 problematic voter registrations. That’s right. In the span of less than a week, these states uncovered a veritable mountain of rot in their voting systems. And these aren’t blue states like California or Illinois, where election integrity is practically a punchline. These are places run by Republicans, where you’d expect someone to be minding the store.
Here’s the breakdown: On March 14, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins revealed that his office had removed 18,637 dead voters. That’s nearly 19,000 people who should not be anywhere near an active voter roll — and yet, there they were. Missouri also scrubbed another 133,520 inactive voters and over 4,000 more who had either moved away or were legally disqualified.
Five days later, Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane reported his own sweep: 144,121 voter records eliminated statewide due to inactivity, changes of address, or ineligibility. And on March 20, Iowa got in on the action, too — announcing the removal of 277 confirmed noncitizens who had either voted or were still registered to vote.
This is not a drill.
That’s almost 300,000 faulty voter registrations discovered in three small-to-medium-sized states. So if that’s what they’re finding in Iowa and Idaho, what do you think is hiding in the bloated voter rolls of New York, California, or even battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia?
We already know the answer, and it’s ugly. But here’s the deeper problem: Voter integrity is being handled like a state-by-state suggestion, not a national imperative. The Left has successfully framed the issue as “voter suppression” anytime Republicans even suggest updating voter rolls or verifying citizenship. And in many deep-blue strongholds, that’s all it takes to shut down a bill or keep a cleanup from ever happening.
It’s deliberate. Democrats want the chaos. The sloppier the system, the easier it is to exploit. That’s why they fight against voter ID laws. That’s why they love mail-in voting with zero safeguards. That’s why they push to register illegal immigrants and let ballots pile up like junk mail. They know it’s a system they can manipulate.
Meanwhile, Republican-led states that are trying to fix things are finding out just how deep the rot goes. And let’s be honest — even those efforts aren’t always as timely or aggressive as they should be. It shouldn’t take a FOIA request or a grassroots lawsuit to force election officials to clean up their lists. That should be standard operating procedure.
It’s time for some blunt truth: America’s elections cannot be trusted until every state, red and blue, treats voting rolls like national security assets — because that’s exactly what they are. Every dead voter on a roll is a crack in the dam. Every noncitizen allowed to vote is one more stolen ballot. Every unverified name is a potential fraudster waiting to be activated.
President Trump is right to hammer this issue relentlessly. His America First movement understands that a country without honest elections is no country at all. But let’s not wait for 2028 to fix it. We need action now — and it starts with red states leading the way, loudly and unapologetically. No more apologies. No more half-measures. No more pretending this is a partisan issue. If Democrats won’t help clean up the mess, voters will remember — and clean up them in November.
