There is an ongoing national fight between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party over purging voter rolls. Conservatives want only eligible voters voting. It’s called election integrity. Liberals believe that purging the voter rolls of ineligible voters disenfranchises voters of color, naturalized citizens, and others from voting because they may be removed in error. President Trump is trying to improve election integrity by removing illegal voters from the voter rolls and require identification to verify voters. In Arizona alone, for example, the state removed nearly 50,000 voters who failed to provide proof of US citizenship. In the 2020 presidential election, that may have given Trump an Arizona victory.
Dēmos, a leftist organization dedicated to build an inclusive democracy based on “democracy reform, economic justice, and racial justice,” seeks to prevent voter roll purging. Dēmos believes “Flawed voter purge practices–such as removals for inactivity or based on inaccurate identification of felony status or citizenship status—often disproportionately target voters of color, naturalized citizens, and other communities, and can prevent many eligible persons from exercising their right to vote.” Dēmos analyzed “voter removal practices, the safeguards in place to protect eligible voters from disenfranchisement, and the accessibility and transparency of voter registration data across ten states: Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.” None of the states met Dēmos’ standards for purging.
In 2020, Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, totaling 53 electoral votes. Had he won those states, he would have won the presidential election with 285 electoral votes (270 needed to secure the presidency). Fast forward to 2024 when Trump won all those states and won the presidency with 312 electoral votes. Dēmos said that the 10 states it analyzed had purged some 19 million voters between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. It did not give the individual state’s vote purges. It stands to reason, however, that if ineligible voters by the millions were removed between the two elections, then ineligible voters in 2020 could have caused Biden to be elected illegally.
This national fight over voter eligibility and election integrity takes on a new dimension when states and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are finding significant numbers of illegal aliens on the voter rolls. In states like Arizona where in 2020, Joe Biden ostensibly won the presidential vote 1,672,143 to President Trump’s 1,661,686 a margin of 10,457 votes, purging 50,000 illegals from the roles means a whole different outcome. The Democrats and their vassal organizations like Dēmos can cry foul all they want, but who let the illegals come into this country by the millions? The Bible says in Exodus 12:49, “The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.” If that law says only citizens can vote, it is no threat to “democracy” to prove citizenship to vote. Otherwise it disenfranchises all citizens.
Sources:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/13/arizona-remove-almost-50k-non-citizens-voter-lists/
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president
