So, The Governor of New Jersey has now admitted that nearly 7,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in the state through the MotorVoter program which allows people to register to vote when they get a driver's license. And, of course, New Jersey permits illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses. And, at least hundreds of these illegals have apparently already voted.
On top of that, the US Department of Homeland Security says that more than 35,000 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey and these are just the ones they know about. Imagine! All this while the State of New Jersey spent years telling us that the voting rolls were totally legit, devoid of any irregularities and squeaky clean.
Now, you'd have to agree that even one illegal vote is one too many and that it disenfranchises a legal vote -- a vote from some weary, overwhelmed New Jersey taxpayer (and there are legions of us) who plays by the rules.
New Jersey Republicans (such as they are) are justifiably outraged and are rightly demanding that the MotorVoter program be suspended if not downright sunsetted. And they are also insisting upon a complete and thorough independent audit and investigation. Good for them -- and they should not let up on this.
But, will any of this actually happen?
I doubt it.
Why?
First, because Republicans currently are a very distinct minority in the state -- as small a contingent as I could ever remember. They don't control any branch of government, and it's not even close.
Second (and correspondingly) Democrats predominate and routinely display the unbridled arrogance of power. They seemingly feel accountable to no one. They willingly ram through whatever budgets, taxes, regulations or onerous pieces of legislation they have in mind. And, they're enabled and encouraged by a brazenly partisan governor who has hallucinatory national political aspirations.
Third, there is no objective statewide media to speak of in New Jersey. Whatever pitiful collection of media, academia, and popular culture that exists in the state is relentlessly left-leaning. So forget about a fair accounting, let alone the truth.
Fourth, New Jersey's veritable one-party stranglehold has bred an inbred culture of corruption with endless tentacles and very deep roots. Case in point: in my lifetime, two United States senators from New Jersey have gone to jail. In fact, in the last half century, over 150 elected and appointed New Jersey public officials (the vast majority of them Democrats) have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to corruption and sentenced to prison terms.
Finally, the voters of New Jersey have apparently resigned themselves to this pattern of corruption, mismanagement, duplicity, mendacity and condescension. In fact, by all accounts they at least tacitly approve of it since they continue to elect Democrats and have even elected and re-elected the Democrat son of the one of the most disgraced and corrupt US Senators in history. Mind you, this is the norm in New Jersey, not the exception! This kind of thing has happened again and again.
Back to the latest imbroglio.
Will anything really be done about it? Will there be an investigation? An audit? An independent accounting? I certainly hope so. And I'll never say never.
But I'm not betting on it.
Sadly, I'm not sure all of this is even on the radar of the typical New Jersey voter and, in the end, it will ultimately be up to the voters to compel positive action. How I wish I could say otherwise but I have to give it to you straight, folks.
What a sorry, sorry mess!
