Bishop E.W. Jackson isn’t mincing words anymore. The nondenominational Christian leader and descendant of enslaved Americans is tired of Democrats claiming that Black people and minorities can’t manage to get an ID to vote. He’s calling it what it is: deeply insulting and deeply offensive.

This conversation exploded back into the national spotlight after Reuters uncovered something that should alarm every American citizen. More than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens were erroneously added to U.S. voter rolls since 2000 across 11 states. The outlet chalked it up to software glitches and clerical errors, bureaucratic failures rather than organized fraud. But here’s the thing that matters most: these aren’t theoretical problems or abstract policy debates. These are real registrations that undermine the integrity of our elections.

Jackson sees through the noise. In his interview, he charged that Democrats remain committed to loose voter registration systems for one reason only. They believe it empowers people who shouldn’t vote to cast ballots, and they’re banking on those votes going their way. It’s a power grab, plain and simple. Every single vote cast by someone who isn’t a citizen cancels out the legitimate vote of an American who actually has the right to participate in our democracy.

Think about that for a moment. You go to the polls, you cast your ballot, and somewhere else a person without legal standing to vote does the same thing. Your voice gets diluted or outright negated. That’s not a small problem we can ignore because it makes comfortable people uncomfortable to discuss.

The soft bigotry of low expectations runs deep in progressive circles, doesn’t it? The left has spent decades claiming that requiring identification to vote amounts to voter suppression. They’ve built entire legal challenges around the premise that minorities somehow lack the basic capability to obtain a government-issued ID. You need an ID to buy alcohol, board a plane, open a bank account, or rent an apartment. But voting? Suddenly that’s a bridge too far.

Jackson understands this condescension better than most. His ancestors endured actual voter suppression when they fought for the right to participate in American democracy. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and outright violence stood between Black Americans and the ballot box. Comparing those horrors to showing an ID at your local polling place isn’t just historically illiterate. It’s an insult to everyone who struggled and died for genuine voting rights.

Don Palmer from the Heritage Foundation believes the 30,000 figure barely scratches the surface. Legal loopholes and loose reporting requirements mean we’re likely undercounting by a significant margin. Many states haven’t even conducted proper audits or deployed tools to identify noncitizens who ended up on voter rolls through mistakes at the DMV. The errors span California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. That’s not one rogue jurisdiction with sloppy procedures. That’s a systemic failure across the country.

Palmer’s solution sounds almost too simple: verify citizenship when people register to vote. If someone walks into a government office for a driver’s license, they must prove their identity and legal status. Why should voter registration operate under a different standard? The answer reveals priorities. Some people care more about appearing welcoming than protecting the fundamental right of citizens to have their votes count fully.

This isn’t about keeping anyone from voting who has the right to vote. It’s about ensuring that only those who should vote actually do. Americans deserve confidence that their elections reflect the will of citizens, not administrative chaos dressed up as inclusion.

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