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Carrie Sheffield is known within conservative journalism circles as a talented columnist and broadcaster. She is a graduate of Harvard University and a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, but many who have followed Sheffield’s work were surprised to learn of her harrowing childhood, detailed in her new memoir.  Growing up, Sheffield attended 17 public schools in addition to sometimes being homeschooled. She and her seven siblings spent much of their childhood living in a motor home with a father who believed he was a prophet, a challenging reality that inspired the title of Sheffield’s book, “Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.”  Sheffield reveals on the “Problematic Women” podcast that her family often lived in “Third World” conditions within the U.S. I describe the existence as “careening between a Third World and a First World existence” quite frequently. So, sometimes we did have houses, and we were living in a regular house. But then we would be back living in the motor home, and then sometimes we’d be living in a tent. So, my mom gave birth to my brother when the family was living in a tent. When I took my ACT exam to go to college, we were living in a shed with no running water. It would be piped in from one of those greenhouses, so it was really unstable. I would say that’s probably the strongest—or the most consistent word was inconsistency.  And the reason we lived this way is because my dad claimed that he was a prophet. He was excommunicated from the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints … . But his philosophy and kind of theology is part of the broader kind of Mormon diaspora. There are lots of different offshoot groups, and my dad just kind of became a self-styled homegrown Mormon prophet—self-proclaimed.   Through a series of events, including her brother attempting to rape her, Sheffield made the decision as a teen that she needed to leave home.  “I told my dad that I wanted to go away to college, and he raised his right hand … like he was making an oath,” Sheffield recalls, “and he said, ‘I prophesy in the name of Jesus that you’ll be raped and murdered if you leave.’ So, at that moment, it was a crossroads. Do I stay and face physical violence potentially from my brother again or do I leave and have the potential of this prophecy coming true? I decided to take my chances and left home and my dad.”  Sheffield’s road to becoming a successful professional was not instantaneous after she left home. In her memoir, she details many of the challenges she had to overcome and how her childhood has affected her as an adult.  Sheffield’s determination in the face of hardship and abuse, and her desire for truth, has rightly earned her the title of “Problematic Woman.”  Catch the conversation with Sheffield on this week’s edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast below: The post She Grew Up ‘Careening Between a Third World and a First World Existence.’ Carrie Sheffield Shares Her Shocking Childhood. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It’s easy to see why the Americans who served and fought during World War II are called the Greatest Generation. Driven by a profound love for America, they offered their all, including their lives, in defense of this nation. The values they fought for back in 1944 are still worth defending today. As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the largest joint airborne and amphibious operation in human history, we must honor the fallen, not just with remembrance, but with a renewed commitment to safeguarding America’s freedom. At Goodfellow Field (now Goodfellow AFB) in San Angelo in Texas, Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) squadron leader Jimmie E. Parker reads the San Angelo Standard-Times’ reporting of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Photo Quest/Getty Images) On June 6, 1944, Allied troops jumped off their landing crafts into chaos, carnage, and death. Something pushed those men toward the machine-gun fire on Omaha Beach in France. Something pushed them into the volunteer line after Pearl Harbor, through basic training, and into occupied Europe. That something was a powerful belief that freedom is a God-given right. Unyielding in their convictions, they stood resolute against Nazi tyranny. The unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were the basis of the American experiment and the driving force for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy.  The spirit of sacrifice that defined the Greatest Generation is desperately needed as we face challenges unlike any since World War II.  Our adversaries are once again mounting against us. Communist China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are united in their animosity toward the United States and the principle of self-determination for a free people. Their hostility has escalated beyond mere rhetoric; they have taken decisive actions. A European nation has been invaded for the first time since World War II. Iranian terrorist proxies are at war with our ally Israel and have attacked American service members. Meanwhile, China is waging an aggressive economic and cyber war against the United States, staging military drills near Taiwan, buzzing American fighter jets, and claiming international waters as its own.  Despite the multiplying threats facing our nation, our military is suffering from the most critical recruitment crisis in three decades. With service branches missing recruitment goals by the thousands last year, a dangerous trend emerges: a decline in young Americans’ willingness to serve.  Why are fewer young people choosing to put on the uniform? A significant problem is that the radical Left has worked tirelessly to persuade younger generations that America isn’t worth defending.  Repulsed by the principle of American exceptionalism, the Left—along with its allies in the legacy media and at prestigious universities—pushes the narrative that America was founded on racism and thus our institutions must be discarded in favor of a collectivist socialist regime.  Teaching the next generation that America is unworthy of admiration poses a significant problem. People naturally fight to protect what they love. The Greeks used the word “thumos” to describe the spirit that makes one a good warrior—a “spiritedness,” usually inspired by the love of one’s own. However, when an entire generation is taught to reject their own country and the principles it was founded upon, an existential crisis is inevitable.  That’s where the United States is headed unless patriots step in and right the ship.  Each generation reflects on those who came before. Past generations have looked toward the courage and fortitude of the men who took Europe back from the grasp of tyranny eight decades ago. But more recent generations instead look to the radicals of the 1960s, the counterculture revolutionaries of the 1970s, the Hollywood and music icons of the 1980s and ’90s, the reality stars of the 2000s, and the social media influencers of the 2010s. It’s no wonder that younger Americans are less willing to serve when their role models champion self-centeredness instead of a “we before me” mentality. Civilizations are defined by what they value, what they honor, and what they shame. We desperately need a cultural course correction.  We must once again boldly champion the ideals our Founding Fathers fought for. We need to tell the complete story of America, the good and the bad. In doing so, we teach our children that Americans pioneered modern representative government, equal treatment under the law, the separation of powers, consent of the governed, and freedom from governmental oppression. We must remind the next generation that wearing the uniform is an honor. It falls upon us, the torchbearers of freedom, to share the stories of those who came before us. By explaining the bedrock principles of our constitutional republic, we can ignite a fire in the next generation and a dedication to safeguarding the freedoms we hold so dear. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, America Is Still Worth Defending appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A group of doctors, nurses, and pediatricians have signed on to a declaration calling on prominent United States medical organizations to stop performing experimental and harmful transgender procedures on children. Members of the American College of Pediatricians, also known as ACPeds, and other medical professionals will announce their signing of the “Doctors Protecting Children Declaration” on Thursday during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, The Daily Signal has learned. “As physicians, nurses, other health professionals, psychotherapists, and behavioral health clinicians, scientists, researchers, and public health and policy professionals, we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex,” the declaration states. It is co-signed by medical and health organizations including the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Genspect, the American College of Family Medicine, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Catholic Medical Association, and many individual doctors, pediatricians, and nurses. The document emphasizes that most children and adults whose “thoughts and feelings do not align with their biological sex will resolve those mental incongruencies after experiencing the normal developmental process of puberty.” It also notes that the young children who are going through attempted “gender-transition” procedures cannot really give “responsible informed consent” due to the “extremely limited long-term follow-up studies of interventions, and the immature, often impulsive, nature of the adolescent brain.” Notably, the declaration points out that the many ”gender clinics” in the U.S. are basing their transgender protocols on the “Standards of Care” developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, which was recently exposed for hiding the dangerous and experimental nature of these procedures. The declaration points out that the very foundation of WPATH’s guidelines is “demonstrably flawed, and pediatric patients can be harmed when subjected to those protocols.” The declaration also highlights the very serious long-term risks of so-called gender-affirming care, including when doctors or medical professionals ”socially transition” children (by referring to kids with pronouns or names that don’t match their biological sex), put them on puberty blockers, prescribe them masculinizing or feminizing hormones such as testosterone or estrogen, or perform irreversible ”sex change” procedures. Sterility is just one of these long-term risks. Social affirmations make youth more likely to progress on to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the declaration states. Puberty blockers “permanently disrupt physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development” and can worsen psychological illness, cause low bone density, impair memory, lead to brain swelling, and more. Cross sex-hormones, such as testosterone for girls and estrogen for boys, are “associated with dangerous health risks across the lifespan including, but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer,” the declaration continues. And genital surgeries, perhaps most obviously, affect “future fertility and reproduction.” “Evidence-based medical research now demonstrates there is little to no benefit from any or all suggested ‘gender affirming’ interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria,” the document says. “Social ‘affirmation,’ puberty blockers, masculinizing or feminizing hormones, and surgeries, individually or in combination, do not appear to improve long-term mental health of the adolescents, including suicide risk.” The document also emphasizes that European countries like England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland have all paused such protocols given the evidence demonstrating that social, hormonal, and surgical interventions are “not only unhelpful but are harmful.” Yet professional medical organizations in the U.S. continue to promote these interventions and call legislation protecting children from so-called transgender procedures “dangerous.” The signers call upon top medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and others to “follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.” “Instead,” the declaration says, “these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological comorbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.” The post EXCLUSIVE: Doctors Urge Top US Medical Orgs to Stop Harming Kids With Transgender Surgeries, Hormones appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The mayor of Miami has an ambitious goal—to reach a “functional zero” homeless population within his bustling city.  “We reached functional zero veteran homeless, and I realized … that we could, we should, take it a step further and get to a functional zero,” says Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican who leads Florida’s second-biggest city. Miami is partnering with several organizations—including Hermanos de la Calle, Lotus House, and Camillus House—to meet the varied needs of the homeless and create a model that other cities could duplicate to tackle their own homelessness crises.  But Suarez says addressing homelessness extends beyond meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the homeless—cities must also create an economic environment that allows all citizens to thrive.  If city leaders want to effectively address homelessness, Suarez argues, they also must consider a “broader macroeconomic reality” that plays a role in creating or alleviating the problem. To this end, the mayor says Miami’s government has followed three rules: “We’ve kept taxes low; we’ve kept people safe; and we’ve leaned into innovation.”  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (Photo courtesy of Francis Suarez) Suarez joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how Miami is advancing toward a “functional zero” homeless population and to share the exciting results of a recent event toward reaching that goal.  Listen to the podcast below: The post Miami Aims for ‘Functional Zero’ Homeless Population. Mayor Francis Suarez Explains How. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Whether a flag on the moon or the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima, boldness in service of our values has been America’s calling card since the Revolutionary War. So, it’s fitting that, on June 6, we commemorate the American and Allied heroism of 80 years ago Thursday, as our troops set out to roll back the tide of fascism in Normandy, France, in 1944. Those brave troops sailed toward the Normandy beaches, into a hail of gunfire, in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address so that Europe, too, should “have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” In this era of intense political polarization, Americans must now unite around the timeless principles of democracy, faith, and freedom, for which our brave troops laid down their lives. When the Nazis began their ferocious blitzkrieg against the free nations of Europe, and Imperial Japan commenced its subjugation of Asia, Americans saw the severe threat posed to democracy and free government of, by, and for the people. Nearly a year before the horrors of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed his faith in America as the arsenal of democracy in one of his fireside chats, declaring, “I have the profound conviction that the American people are now determined to put forth a mightier effort than they have ever yet made to increase our production of all the implements of defense, to meet the threat to our democratic faith.” In commemorating the 40th anniversary of the heroism of D-Day in 1984, President Ronald Reagan likewise recognized the inspiration that democracy provided to our troops as he proclaimed to his audience, among them Army Rangers who liberated the ground he stood on at Pointe du Hoc, “You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.” In the face of deep concerns about the continued success of government by the people and for the people, we as Americans must remember the awesome debt we owe to our forebears and rededicate ourselves to engagement in our precious democracy. As news of the Normandy invasion broke in the United States, Roosevelt addressed the American people with a radio prayer asking “that our people devote themselves to a continuance of prayer.” As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts. Americans responded fervently by packing churches across the nation on June 6 as the New York Daily News replaced its front-page stories with the Lord’s Prayer. As we again commemorate the D-Day invasion, Americans should remember the central place faith has held in American life, and embrace the religious liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights as we work to halt the rising scourge of antisemitism and repel threats to religious liberty. With a foundation of religious and democratic faith, Allied forces’ overriding objective on D-Day was to expand the remit of freedom as they sought to liberate Europe from Nazi domination. In his famous statement to the Allied Expeditionary Force, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower bolstered his troops by declaring that they would “bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.” The American people also understood the D-Day invasion as a key step in the defense of liberty. In solidarity with the Allied forces storming the beaches, a special ringing of the Liberty Bell occurred for the first time in nearly 100 years. While remembering the brave troops who fought that day, and the 2,501 Americans who paid the ultimate price, we should remember the privilege sealed by their sacrifice to live out our nation’s founding vision and “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” As Reagan declared 40 years ago today, and now 40 years further removed from the D-Day invasion: [L]et us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened, “I will not fail thee or forsake thee.” Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died. The post A Reminder of Heroism’s Foundation: The 80th Anniversary of D-Day appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The truth is out there. Aliens are registering and voting in American elections. For anyone who cares to see it, the truth is available in public records in election offices across the nation. But unfortunately, those who expose the truth about voting by aliens—illegal immigrants or not—are subjected to ridicule and an onslaught from the Left to preserve the broken status quo. Some would prefer that anyone who documents aliens participating in American elections—especially with the current border crisis—simply disappear. We both testified recently before the House Administration Committee on this serious and real problem. The reactions of some Democrats on the committee were outlandish. They ignored or belittled the hard evidence we presented. Instead, the Democrats changed the topic to Donald Trump and hurled inaccurate insults at us. It would all be rank comedy if the topic weren’t so serious. Our written and oral testimony documented, in all, scores of aliens who registered, and many who voted, sometimes repeatedly, especially in presidential elections. There is evidence galore, not just sketchy reports of aliens landing in the United States and voting. According to one list, 19 aliens from Italy, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, the Philippines, Panama, South Korea, Poland, Guatemala, Nigeria, and Canada all were prosecuted and convicted in North Carolina for illegally voting in multiple state elections. We brought this to the attention of the House committee members.  There was a Mr. Abdelmounim in Pittsburgh, who wrote a letter to Allegheny County election officials begging to be removed from the voter rolls because, he said, “I was mistakenly registered to vote because I did not understand the questions I was being asked” by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He wasn’t alone. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 to 20,000 aliens were registered to vote by PennDOT in the past 20 years. This isn’t a rumor; this is an admission by Pennsylvania election officials in litigation brought by one of our organizations. There are sightings of other aliens by the thousands in Pennsylvania, aliens who voted, including a man named Conroy.  He registered as a Democrat on Oct. 8, 2008, and later voted.  Conroy wrote election officials asking to be removed from the voter rolls, saying, “I did not no [sic] I had to be a U.S. citizen to vot [sic].” Undeniable Evidence We presented similar hard, undeniable evidence of aliens voting in California, New Jersey, and, naturally, Chicago. In most instances, the aliens themselves admitted they were ineligible to vote as they begged to be removed from voter rolls. Many aliens are being registered to vote by election officials even after they answer a question on the voter registration form, “Are You a U.S. Citizen?”—you guessed it—with a “No.” That’s right: Aliens tell election officials they’re not eligible to vote, and they still get registered. We have collected hundreds of examples of this across the country. We call them “Checkbox No’s.” One of us told the House committee about the 278 aliens who were discovered in 2011 on the voter roll in Fairfax County, Virginia, after crosschecking the state’s driver’s license records when one of us (von Spakovsky) served on the county’s Electoral Board. A total of 117 of these confirmed aliens had voted in Virginia elections. They were taken off the voter roll and the Electoral Board forwarded specific information on them to both the county prosecutor and the U.S. Justice Department. They did nothing. Why wouldn’t Republicans and Democrats both want to solve this problem? The aliens who are registering to vote—sometimes unwittingly because of language barriers—are victims too. Often, third-party registration drives by unsavory actors tell aliens they can register and vote. Sometimes aliens just don’t understand the language in the “motor voter” registration process at the DMV and improperly register. Once upon a time, preventing aliens from landing on the voter rolls would have been a bipartisan concern with bipartisan solutions. The aliens who knowingly register to vote are also a problem. Unfortunately, prosecutors are usually too afraid or just uninterested in enforcing the many laws against alien voting. Both state and federal laws prohibit aliens from voting, but the number of prosecutors with the courage to do anything about these clear violations of law in the past decade may be counted on one hand. In a delightfully deceptive rhetorical trick, the Left converts this lack of prosecutions into evidence that aliens aren’t registering to vote. No prosecutions mean no aliens voting, they say. Better yet, they deflect, saying it is already illegal for aliens to vote, so move along, nothing to see here but swamp gas. Role of DOJ The Justice Department, where we both once worked as election attorneys, bears a great deal of the blame. The reason DOJ has failed to prosecute foreign nationals who register and vote is because the agency officials with the power to do so are opposed to enforcing laws they don’t like.  Remember the list of 278 alien voters sent by Fairfax County to the Justice Department? Who was the DOJ official to whom these cases of aliens voting were sent?  Why, it was none other than Jack Smith. Indeed, the very same “Get Trump” Jack Smith, who is now the special counsel in two investigations of Trump.  At the time, Smith was chief of the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the section responsible for prosecuting federal election crimes. Apparently, he had no interesting in prosecuting these blatant violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1015 (f) (falsely claiming to be a citizen to register), 18 U.S.C. § 911 (false assertion of citizenship), and 18 U.S.C. § 611 (voting by an alien). Democrats on the House committee ridiculed another report we brought to their attention as being too old, which shows how far back this problem goes. It’s the official 1998 report of the House Oversight Committee of its investigation into the 1996 election contest between incumbent Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., and Democrat opponent Loretta Sanchez. Sanchez won the election by a margin of only 979 votes, and Dornan mounted a challenge, claiming that aliens had illegally registered and voted. After comparing the voter registration list to subpoenaed immigration records, the House Oversight Committee found “clear and convincing” evidence that 624 aliens had voted illegally in the Dornan-Sanchez election and circumstantial evidence that another 196 aliens also had done so. Sanchez was declared the winner since, even if you discounted those votes, she still would have won by a narrow margin of legitimate votes. This is what foreign interference in an election actually looks like. But as the Oversight Committee pointed out, the old Immigration and Naturalization Service’s database had records only on “documented” aliens. If this many documented aliens had registered and voted in this one congressional race, “how many illegal or undocumented aliens may be registered to vote in Orange County?” asked the House committee.  And the situation in California only has gotten worse, as the state has implemented driver’s licenses for illegal aliens and automatic voter registration. California has one of the worst records in the country of failing to verify and maintain the accuracy of the voter rolls. Because almost no state even attempts to verify that individuals registering to vote are U.S. citizens—and because the federal government, including both the courts and the executive branch, have put up significant barriers to such verification—we don’t really know how many aliens, whether here legally or illegally, are registering and voting. Indeed, there is almost no way we can know. Nonetheless, what we do know is very concerning and indicative of a much larger problem. Seeking Records Some records touching on alien voting are subject to the National Voter Registration Act’s public disclosure provisions. Public Interest Legal Foundation has sought, or filed lawsuits to obtain, the official records of aliens who contacted county election officials on their own and asked to be taken off the registration list because they aren’t citizens or were discovered to be aliens through state driver’s license records. PILF’s findings include: Boston disclosed 70 recent examples of alien voter removals to the foundation in 2024, with 22 voting histories. Since 2014, Virginia reportedly removed more than 11,000 registrants from the voter roll as “declared” noncitizens. Since 2021, government records show 186 voter registrants were “involuntarily purged” over citizenship issues in Pima County, Arizona. From this group, seven are recorded as having cast ballots across two federal and local elections. A North Carolina audit determined that 1,454 registrants didn’t appear to be naturalized before Election Day 2014 and would need to be challenged at the polls. Of those, 89 appeared at polling places, 24 were challenged, and 11 of those challenges were sustained or justified. Since 2015, government records show 222 foreign nationals residing in Maricopa County, Arizona, were removed from the local voter registration roll. Of this group, nine individuals are recorded as having cast 12 ballots across four federal elections. Since 2007, Chicago city records show the sporadic removals of 394 foreign nationals from the voter registration roll. Of this group, 20 individuals are recorded as having cast 85 ballots. Records reveal that 264 individuals reported or confirmed their ineligible status to government officials after registering to vote in San Diego County. In total, these individuals cast 94 ballots, with some votes stretching back to the 1992 presidential election. A total of 139 alien registrations were canceled in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, through self-reporting since 2006. And 27% percent of those aliens cast at least one ballot before being removed from the voter roll. A total of 616 admitted and officially recorded aliens in 11 counties were in New Jersey’s statewide voter registration system. These, however, were only the aliens who essentially self-reported and asked to be removed, 9% of whom also cast ballots before they made that request. Not Interested? These are real alien sightings that are part of government records. These are not rumors or speculation. This is hard data of the sort that, in another era, political scientists would be studying. But not anymore. Academics aren’t as interested in the truth now as they are in the cause. The army of leftist election law professors would rather ignore this irrefutable data and continue spouting, in election law classes and at the Brennan Center, their dog-eared mantra that alien voting hardly ever happens. Back in Pennsylvania, election officials are still hiding records from the public about the scope of the alien voting problem there and the steps they purportedly are taking to fix it. Despite losing a federal court lawsuit in which a judge ordered the state to disclose these records, Pennsylvania officials are fighting in the hope of ignoring their statutory obligation to be transparent. They are attempting to conceal documents from the public by hiding every record of the alien registration fix behind attorney-client privilege. We don’t know how many voted because Pennsylvania created an artificial attorney-client wall around all list-maintenance procedures related to the alien voting mess. This attorney-client wall is now at issue before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Namely, can a state hide list-maintenance records that Congress has said should be made public by simply processing them through a law office? Heck of a job, Gov. Josh Shapiro! Among the questions being asked by members of the public and Pennsylvania state legislators that election officials are refusing to answer: How many aliens registered, how many voted, who did you pay to fix the problem, and who was responsible for the mess in the first place? Instead of answering these questions, Pennsylvania election officials are off to the 3rd Circuit seeking to overturn a District Court decision ordering them to provide that information. Again, in another era, everyone would want to fix the problem, not prolong it. Many of these reports, based on official data received from election officials, raise the same question that the House Oversight Committee asked back in 1998: How many aliens are registered and voting who haven’t contacted election officials and asked to be taken off registration lists? How many aliens haven’t gotten a driver’s license, making it impossible for election officials to use DMV records to find aliens who have registered? What DHS Could Do One way to remedy this problem in part is for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to open up the nation’s most comprehensive alien database—a system called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE. States have a right to SAVE data, but DHS makes it hard for them to obtain it. Some states, such as North Carolina, have created more effective (but still cumbersome) search protocols to verify registration eligibility. But DHS should streamline the entire process and stop putting up bureaucratic obstacles to the use of its database. Legislative proposals in Congress, such as HR 8281, also called the SAVE Act, seek to address the matter with preregistration proof of citizenship requirements. But at the very minimum, election officials need to stop registering aliens who mark “No” to the citizenship question on the voter application form. If we can’t stop aliens from registering after they tell election officials they’re aliens, it makes you wonder what else election officials are bungling. Despite what liberals and their allies in the mainstream media say, alien registration and voting is a problem, particularly in close elections, and we have close elections all the time in America. Anyone who doubts that should look at the database maintained by Public Interest Legal Foundation on the hundreds of elections it has documented that resulted in ties or were decided by only one vote. It’s about time that something is done about this problem. The post Despite Liberals’ Hysterical Denials, Aliens Are Registering and Voting appeared first on The Daily Signal.