I coached youth sports for more than a decade, and it taught me that scoreboards are neutral ledgers about who was better on any given day. The referees are tasked with making sure both sides play fair. Frustration kicks in when even the people in the bleachers can see them ignore cheating during the game.

Election officials keep telling us not to believe our own eyes. The media tells us noncitizen voting is extremely rare, yet new charges now surface in different states almost every week. On Oct. 19, officials said the Justice Department had charged 113 noncitizens across 20 states in seven weeks, and a week later it announced charges involving 48 people in five states. Charges are allegations, and the numbers remain relatively small against a national electorate. Rare still isn't absent. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and the evidence shows where to spend the ounce.

New Jersey shows what skipping prevention costs. In July, Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that a Motor Vehicle Commission software error had registered about 6,600 people who answered “no” when a keypad asked whether they were citizens. The state later said about 340 of them voted and removed roughly 5,100 registrations. Sherrill said she had no evidence any election was swayed. The vendor, IDEMIA, says its system recorded the “no” answers, so the state held that information all along. The glitch was fixed in June 2024, and the public heard nothing for two years. The cleanup still leaks. NJ.com reported that a Manalapan........

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