EXCLUSIVE: Black bishop and author Earl Walker Jackson blasted Democrats and the left over what he called the "deeply insulting" and "deeply offensive" claim that minorities and African Americans cannot get I.D.s to vote.Debate erupted this week over voter I.D.requirements after Reuters reported that an investigation found 30,000 noncitizens were "erroneously" registered to vote in 11 states.
Jackson, a nondenominational Christian leader and descendant of enslaved ancestors, said the findings underscored what he described as a growing problem of noncitizen voting that disenfranchises American citizens.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Jackson charged, "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.""This is nothing but a power grab," he posited, emphasizing 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."BOMBSHELL VOTING SCANDAL ADDS TO PATTERN OF NONCITIZEN VOTERS AS TRUMP WARNS OF THREAT TO ‘HEART' OF DEMOCRACYBishop Earl Walker Jackson blasted Democrats and the left for what he called a "deeply insulting" and "deeply offensive" claim that minorities and African Americans cannot get I.D.s.(Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Reuters reported on Wednesday that more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens were added to U.S.
voter rolls since 2000.The outlet attributed the erroneous registrations to "software glitches and clerical errors" and said its review suggested "inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally." Reuters said it was unable to determine how many noncitizens actually cast ballots.The errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia.Don Palmer, the senior legal fel...