Democrats’ Gun Control/Election Integrity Paradox
Does America’s future really depend upon background checks, draconian controls on buying guns and a national firearm registry?
Democrats seem to think so. Gun control, including measures that violate the constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms, is a central feature of their platform. In fact, Democrat-controlled jurisdictions, most recently Colorado, have imposed the harshest gun control measures in the nation.
However, one can argue that, unless voting is limited to identifiable, properly registered citizens in good standing, interests inimical to the American Republic can influence, even determine federal and local election outcomes. Without secure elections, the future of the Republic is, indeed, at risk.
But, even though Democrats favor photo ID, background checks and waiting periods to purchase constitutionally-protected firearms, they reject the same and similar methods to ensure election integrity as “voter suppression.”
In early April, the U.S. House of Representatives finally passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The SAVE Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act – also called the “motor voter” law – to make states require documentation of a person’s U.S. citizenship before registering them to vote in federal elections and to ensure that states remove non-citizens from their voter rolls.
Since every vote cast illegally offsets – disenfranchises – one actual citizen, there is no conceivable reason to oppose the SAVE Act other than to deliberately undermine the integrity of American elections and make it easier to cheat.
A Gallup poll taken days before the 2024 presidential election revealed that, while support varied by party, majorities – 98 percent of Republicans, 67 percent of Democrats, and 84 percent of Independents – supported requiring photo ID to vote. The support for prohibiting illegal aliens from voting is even stronger.
Nonetheless, all but four House Democrats voted against the SAVE Act. Every Pennsylvania House Democrat – Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans, Madeleine Dean, Mary Scanlon, Chrissy Houlahan, Summer Lee, and Chris Deluzio – voted “Nay.” Every Republican voted “Aye,” advancing the bill to the Senate.
Simply stated, Republicans favor making it more difficult or impossible to cheat, while most Democrats would make cheating easier.
But, Democrats say, it is already illegal for illegal aliens to vote. In fact, existing laws against crossing the border illegally haven’t stopped illegal entries, so toothless laws lacking documentary proof of citizenship are unlikely to be any more effective.
Just because noncitizen voting is already illegal doesn’t mean it’s not happening, or that current law does very much – or anything – to prevent it.
Welfare offices and other agencies in multiple states provide voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship.
Under the 1993 “Motor Voter” Act, registrants may simply check a box on the federal form affirming they are U.S. citizens. Democrats prefer an “honor” system for affirmation – presumably the same “honor” system that “prevents” foreign nationals from entering or remaining in the country illegally.
How “ironclad” has the Democrats’ preferred “honor” system been?
Just for starters, last August, officials in Alabama, Virginia, Ohio and Texas identified as many as 17,000 non-citizens on state voting rolls, and, in Arizona, all fifteen counties have begun the tedious process of verifying and removing noncitizens from their voter rolls, including nearly 50,000 registrants who did not follow the laxly-enforced state requirement to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Fewer than 50,000 illegal votes could easily swing an election in a state as closely-contested as Arizona.
It took a lawsuit by the America First Legal (AFL) organization to get Arizona to address the problem and clean up their voter rolls.
The SAVE Act would require the same cleanup everywhere.
But, because there is no contemptible depth to which Democrats will not sink in exploiting race for partisan political purposes, some allege that, by requiring citizenship to vote, Republicans would somehow be suppressing the “minority” vote.
Again, citizen-only voting should not be controversial, except, of course, to those who intend to cheat – or have cheated.
The future of the American Republic depends upon free, fair and secure elections that reserve voting rights for U.S. citizens. Requiring and enforcing photo ID and documentary proof of citizenship is essential for maintaining a functioning society.
If your representative is a Democrat, call their office, ask them why they want non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections.
Frankly, their real motives aren’t lost on anyone who’s paying attention.
Are you?
https://www.pottsmerc.com/2025/04/21/jerry-shenk-democrats-gun-control-election-integrity-paradox/
