Inside Democrats absurd push to downplay noncitizen voting and block Voter ID

Californians have been told for months or even years: Noncitizen voting is as mythical as Bigfoot.Well, we just had a few sightings.As the California Post reported, federal authorities on Monday charged 28 foreign nationals with alleged election-related crimes, including illegally registering to vote and, in some cases, casting votes in past elections.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story The feds called “Operation Protect the Vote” the largest voter fraud bust in state history.And it underscores a basic truth in California: Fraud of all kinds has run amok for years; it needs to end; and state voters in November would do well to support Prop.39, the Voter ID act — to help ensure that at least part of it does.Public faith in California’s voting system has faltered, and no wonder: The state has absurdly lax voting procedures.Sanctuary immigration policies, along with a state system that automatically registers some voters, lead many to wonder just how many noncitizens are tucked into California’s voter rolls.Last week, the Trump administration suggested that number is at least 20,000, and sued the state over its refusal to segregate those voters’ ballots to resolve eligibility questions before they’re counted.Plus, the state has few guardrails on balloting: Officials paper the state with mail-in ballots with little care over who receives them, who completes them or who returns them. The California Post has documented alleged cases of homeless Skid Row voters who say they were paid a couple of bucks to vote for specified mayoral candidates.

The Post has also found thousands of voters registered using the addresses of temporary homeless shelters — with mail-in ballots presumably flowing to those locations automatically each election cycle, despite limi...