In "Casablanca," Captain Renault is "shocked, shocked" to find gambling at Rick's, just before collecting his winnings. Bishop E.W. Jackson skipped the theatrics. After Reuters reported that more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens had been added to U.S. voter rolls since 2000, the black pastor, a descendant of enslaved Americans, told Fox News Digital, "The sad reality is I'm not shocked."

Neither am I. What shocks me is how long one party has called voter ID a revival of Jim Crow. Check who wrote the original. Jim Crow was a Democratic project built to keep eligible black citizens from voting. Voter ID works the other way. It keeps an unlawful vote from canceling a lawful one.

I've spent more than 30 years in financial services. My industry can't open a brokerage account without satisfying federal customer identification rules. As an expert witness in fiduciary cases, I know "we took their word for it" is not a winning argument. Yet the standard that governs an IRA is supposedly too much to ask for choosing a president.

Thirty Thousand "Glitches"

Reuters found errors in 11 states and blamed "software glitches and clerical errors." It couldn't say how many voted. Iowa could: officials said 35 cast counted ballots in 2024. In New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed in July that a motor vehicle agency error registered about 6,600 self-declared noncitizens. Fewer than 400 voted.

Defenders call 30,000 tiny against 170 million registered voters. Tell that to Shelly Simonds. Her 2017 Virginia legislative race ended in an 11,607-vote tie, and a name drawn from a bowl decided which party ran the House of Delegates. The 30,000........

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