Black Bishop Slams Democrats Over Noncitizen Voting Claims

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• Reuters reported over 30,000 noncitizens were erroneously registered to vote across 11 states.
• Bishop Earl Walker Jackson called the argument that minorities cannot obtain voter ID deeply insulting and offensive.
• Heritage Foundation expert Don Palmer stated the actual number of noncitizen registrations is likely much higher than reported.

Bishop Earl Walker Jackson, a nondenominational Christian leader and descendant of enslaved Americans, condemned Democrats for claiming that African Americans and other minorities struggle to obtain voter identification.

He argued the assertion is both insulting and false.

“Why the Democrats are so committed to this can only be explained one way: they think it empowers people who shouldn’t vote to vote, and they believe those people are going to vote for them.”

Jackson described the practice as a power grab that undermines the votes of American citizens.

“This is nothing but a power grab,” he said, stressing that “every vote by a noncitizen does in fact cancel out the vote of an American citizen, or it amplifies it in a way that’s illegal or inappropriate.”

The Reuters investigation identified erroneous registrations in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

These errors were attributed to software glitches and clerical mistakes dating back to 2000.

Don Palmer, senior legal fellow for election integrity at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that the 30,000 figure “is actually quite low.”

Palmer explained that many states fail to conduct proper audits or use effective tools to identify noncitizens on voter rolls.

“The answer really is that there needs to be more care taken to developing a system of verifying citizenship and you just don’t see that in most states,” he said.

Bishop Jackson rejected the notion that voter ID requirements disproportionately harm Black Americans.

He called the claim preposterous and compared it to everyday situations where identification is routinely required.

“Forgive me for being personal about this for a moment, but I just find this deeply insulting and deeply offensive because the implication is that somehow if you are black, no matter how wealthy, educated, well-to-do, somehow getting an ID is a problem for you,” he said.

“But on the other hand, if you’re white, no matter how poor, no matter how uneducated, no matter what your circumstances are, somehow you can get an I.D., that’s not a problem, I mean, it’s preposterous.”

Jackson emphasized that preserving election integrity is not bigotry but a responsibility shared by citizens of goodwill.

“I don’t hate illegal aliens, I don’t want to see them harmed or hurt, but they don’t have a right to vote in our elections, and they shouldn’t be permitted to do so,” he concluded.

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