You don’t need to pick a lock if someone leaves the front door wide open. That’s the quiet strategy behind one of the most brazen election integrity failures in America right now — and most people have no idea it’s happening.
Across the country, we keep discovering new instances of ineligible individuals casting ballots in our elections. Democrats deny it. They dismiss it, call it a conspiracy theory. Right. But the evidence keeps piling up, and in some states, officials aren’t just looking the other way — they’re writing the loopholes into law.
One state has gone so far that its own statutes permit people who have never set foot on American soil to register and vote. Never lived in the state. Never lived in the country. But sure, go ahead and help pick our next congressman.
That state is Virginia.
The Republican National Committee and RITE PAC filed a lawsuit this week against the Virginia State Board of Elections, challenging a law that allows non-residents to vote. The statute was supposedly designed to help military members vote while overseas — fine — but it’s been stretched so far beyond that purpose it now lets anyone born abroad register based on where a parent last lived.
From the Republican National Committee, as reported by Breitbart:
“People who have never lived in Virginia — or even in the United States — should not be voting in Virginia’s elections. Virginia officials are ignoring the Virginia Constitution and allowing ineligible voters to cast ballots.”
That’s RNC Chairman Joe Gruters. You’d think that wouldn’t need to be said out loud, but here we are.
A loophole 27 states wide
Virginia isn’t alone. According to Fox News, twenty-seven other states have similar provisions allowing non-residents to vote based on a parent’s last address. How many people are quietly casting ballots in states they’ve never called home?
In Fairfax County, the registrar accepted voter registration forms from individuals who explicitly wrote: “I am a U.S. citizen living outside the country, I have never lived in the United States.” And nobody thought to flag that?
The good news is the RNC is winning these fights. In North Carolina, an appeals court already ruled in the committee’s favor on this exact issue, and the state Supreme Court let the decision stand. Virginia marks the fourth such lawsuit, and the RNC now has over 120 active election integrity cases nationwide.
Watching the Commonwealth crumble
This one is personal. I was born in the great Commonwealth of Virginia — the home of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, the very cradle of American self-governance. Watching what’s happened to it breaks my heart.
Governor Spanberger sold herself as a moderate. A former CIA officer. A pragmatist. What Virginians got instead was another progressive who lets the Commonwealth’s own constitution collect dust while its elections get diluted by people with zero connection to the state. Funny how that works.
If your state allows people who’ve never lived there — or never lived in America — to vote in your elections, you don’t have elections. You have a suggestion box. The RNC is right to fight this, and real Virginians deserve so much better.
Key Takeaways
- The RNC is suing Virginia for allowing people who’ve never lived in the state — or the country — to vote in its elections.
- Twenty-seven other states have similar loopholes letting non-residents cast ballots.
- The RNC already won this fight in North Carolina and has over 120 active election integrity lawsuits nationwide.
- Virginia’s Constitution requires residency to vote — it’s past time someone enforced it.
