2026年8月14日 美国东部夏令时12:46 / 福克斯新闻频道
查克·德沃尔警告称，非公民选民登记争议正暴露选举保障机制的弱点，而司法部正于中期选举前就选民名册问题与各州展开博弈
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻
查克·德沃尔指出，若不对公民身份进行独立核查，《机动车选民登记法》就会产生漏洞，并以新泽西州已查出的6600名非公民选民登记案例为例。
NEW 您现在可以收听福克斯新闻的文章了！
越来越多州面临非公民投票与非法投票指控，以及选民登记政策争议，这加剧了中期选举前全国范围内关于选举保障机制的争斗。
这些争议暴露了一场更广泛的博弈：各州在选民登记时应如何核查公民身份——是最大限度保障登记便捷，还是最大限度强化核查流程——以及联邦政府在怀疑存在非法活动时，要求各州提供选民数据的权限边界。这一议题近期因新泽西州州长米奇·谢里尔披露，该州通过特伦顿机动车管理局（MVC）登记的非公民选民多达6600人而引爆舆论。
“这不仅仅是新泽西州的问题，这是全国性的问题，”得克萨斯公共政策基金会国家倡议主管查克·德沃尔在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。德沃尔在谢里尔披露相关情况后撰文称，若非公民投票与非法投票长期处于相对不受管控的状态，将会引发诸多问题。
“从历史上看，不恰当地膨胀投票人数一直是获取权力的途径，”德沃尔说，并补充称多数美国人“担忧”非公民投票问题。
联邦法官在全州争议中阻止司法部获取新泽西州选民名册
视频
新泽西州选民丑闻引发专家警告：这是“选举舞弊的原材料”
克林顿总统于1993年签署了《全国选民登记法》。德沃尔表示，这部通常被称为“机动车选民登记法”的法律要求受管辖的各州通过机动车管理机构提供选民登记服务，同时自行管理本州的选民名册。
“该法案的初衷……是让选民登记变得异常简单，尤其是当你前往政府最常见的办事部门时，”德沃尔说，“也就是机动车管理局或其他同类机构。”
德沃尔认为，该选民登记系统的设计者并未考虑到机动车管理机构的核心职能更为狭窄——从历史来看，其仅聚焦于两件事：“确认你就是你所声称的那个人，以及你是否能够安全驾驶机动车。”
德沃尔称，这两项职能均与选举安全毫无关联。
“而如果在此基础上再增加一层动机，即如果负责登记的人员希望尽可能多的人完成登记，因为这会成为选举舞弊的原材料，那么你现在就会面临一系列全新的问题，这种情况会极大加剧制度本身的漏洞。”
这场更广泛的博弈日益呈现出司法部与包括新泽西州、宾夕法尼亚州在内各州对立的局面，双方围绕联邦政府要求提供选民登记数据的诉求产生分歧。
这两个州的选举机构——分别由民主党人和共和党人领导——均拒绝了相关要求，以隐私和法律为由反对披露未打码的敏感信息。
司法部在摇摆州选票之争中获胜后嘲讽媒体
视频
新泽西州共和党人称机动车选民登记丑闻印证了多年来的选举诚信警告，推动开展议会调查
与此同时，司法部采取了“破窗理论”式的调查方式来查处潜在的选举违规行为。
民权事务助理司法部长哈米特·迪隆表示，该机构正在应用前纽约市市长鲁迪·朱利安尼政府时期普及的犯罪打击理论，即通过查处低级别的违法行为来威慑更严重的犯罪。
在迪隆和司法部长托德·布兰奇的领导下，司法部已将追查州选举程序中可证实的欺诈与违规行为作为优先事项。
“我们需要追查每一起此类违规行为……我不能公开谈论我们正在开展的大量工作，但活动人士和其他人士为我们提供了线索，”迪隆近期在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，“我们正在逐一认真核查。”
加州被指控阻止联邦选民名册审计，司法部升级对选举欺诈指控的调查
视频
“你该羞愧”：司法部官员暗示谢里尔更早已知晓机动车选民登记“丑闻”
这一举措使联邦政府与各州产生冲突，批评者援引第十修正案中关于联邦权力与各州管理选举职权之间平衡的条款表达担忧。
美国国会此前曾利用联邦资金施压各州修改传统上由州级管理的政策。上世纪80年代，联邦法律将部分高速公路拨款与各州将最低饮酒年龄设定为21岁挂钩。
司法部同样已就选民数据与选举记录争议，起诉或以起诉威胁新泽西州、宾夕法尼亚州和纽约州等州。
面临更严格联邦审查的州民主党人已对故意不当行为的指控予以反驳。
新泽西州参议院议长尼古拉斯·斯库塔里（来自苏格兰平原的民主党人）近期在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，他认同“健康的民主”取决于选民名册安全以及对负责“自由、公平、便捷选举”的人员进行妥善管理。
“这也取决于公众的信任，谢里尔州长因对这些失误保持透明、迅速采取行动启动独立调查以查明问题所在，并承诺追究相关人员责任而值得称赞，”斯库塔里说。
与此同时，斯库塔里的批评者指责新泽西州民主党人尽管多次收到关于系统漏洞的警告，却未能阻止选民名册问题。
谢里尔在登记混乱后出人意料地公布选民身份证明声明：“重大转变”
2020年7月7日周二，选民在新泽西州纽瓦克的一个投票点投票。（摄影师：迈克尔·内格尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“当时大家都凭诚信登记，”新泽西州参议院司法委员会少数党领袖克里斯汀·科拉多（来自托托瓦的共和党人）表示。
“事实是，长期以来负责此事的官员称这绝对不可能发生；共和党人是‘阴谋论者’，”来自利特尔西尔弗的州参议员德克兰·奥Scanlon——州联合预算委员会最高共和党议员——补充道。
包括宾夕法尼亚州在内的其他州也以隐私担忧为由，拒绝了联邦政府获取选民数据的要求。德沃尔称，在担任加利福尼亚州议员期间，他曾有权访问类似的选民信息。
“许多民主党人将选举视为纯粹的人口普查活动，只不过是统计人数而已。实际上，这并非知情公民基于自身开明的利益诉求投下选票。”
宾夕法尼亚州官员同样拒绝了特朗普政府获取该州选民名册的要求，即便司法部在9月起诉哈里斯堡选举负责人后仍未放弃。
“这一要求以及据称旨在收集数百万美国人广泛数据的行为，是令人担忧的企图，旨在扩大联邦政府在我国选举进程中的角色，”宾夕法尼亚州联邦国务卿阿尔·施密特——由民主党州长乔希·夏皮罗任命的费城共和党人——在回复中写道。
“我认真对待联邦和宾夕法尼亚州法律规定的义务，确保只有符合资格的选民才能参与投票，并确保宾夕法尼亚州的选民名册得到妥善维护和更新，”施密特在7月写给司法部的最新一封信中写道。
要求选民登记者提供公民身份证明、选民需出示身份证件的《拯救美国法案》仍在参议院陷入停滞，参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（来自南达科他州的共和党人）将参议院送入夏季休会期，这激怒了特朗普总统和选举安全倡导者。
订阅获取政治新闻通讯
多个竞选团队在亚利桑那州一处投票点外摆放庭院标牌与竞选服饰。（卡西迪·阿拉伊扎/盖蒂图片社）
不过，德沃尔警告称，国会此前曾推动全面的联邦选举立法，并主张各州应在选举保障机制方面发挥主导作用。
他指出了民主党此前推动通过的《为人民法案》，该法案由前马里兰州众议员约翰·萨尔班斯发起，原本将限制部分州的选民身份证明要求。
“因此，我们需要谨慎对待使用联邦法律这柄大锤，扫除各州管理自身事务的权力，”德沃尔说。
点击此处下载福克斯新闻应用程序
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系谢里尔寻求进一步置评。
作者1985年出生于宾夕法尼亚州阿伦敦，2013年起在福克斯新闻纽约和华盛顿分社工作。
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403346770112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402689477112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402273992112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402033940112
‘Raw material for election fraud’: Expert flags voter-roll problems far beyond one state
August 14, 2026 12:46pm EDT / Fox News
Chuck DeVore warns noncitizen voter-registration controversies are exposing weaknesses in election safeguards as DOJ battles states over voter rolls ahead of the midterms
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
Chuck DeVore says Motor Voter laws create vulnerabilities when citizenship isn’t independently verified, pointing to 6,600 noncitizen registrations uncovered in New Jersey.
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!
A growing number of states facing noncitizen and illegal voting allegations and disputes over voter registration policies is intensifying a national fight over election safeguards ahead of the midterms.
The disputes exposed a broader fight over how states verify citizenship when registering voters — maximum access versus maximum verification — and how far the federal government can go in demanding state voter data when suspecting illegal activity. The issue recently exploded after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed 6,600 noncitizens had been registered to vote through Trenton’s Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC).
“This isn’t just a New Jersey problem. This is a national problem,” Texas Public Policy Foundation Chief National Initiatives officer Chuck DeVore told Fox News Digital in an interview. DeVore wrote after Sherrill’s disclosure about the problems that can arise if noncitizen and illegal voting continue relatively unchecked.
“Historically, inappropriately pumping up the vote has been a path to gaining power,” DeVore said, adding that a plurality of Americans “are concerned” about noncitizen voting.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS DOJ ACCESS TO NJ VOTER ROLLS AMID STATEWIDE CONTROVERSY
Video
New Jersey voter scandal exposes ‘raw material for election fraud,’ expert warns
President Bill Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993. Commonly called the “Motor Voter Law,” the law requires covered states to offer voter registration through motor vehicle agencies while administering their own voter rolls, DeVore said.
“The intention … was to make it really easy to register to vote, especially when you touched a very common part of government,” DeVore said, “which was the Department of Motor Vehicles or whatever the equivalent is.”
DeVore argued that architects of the voter registration system failed to account for the narrower mission of motor vehicle agencies, which he said historically focused on two things: “You who you say you are — and can you safely operate automotive machinery.”
Neither function has anything to do with election security, DeVore said.
“And then if you add an additional layer on top of it, which is if the people in charge want as many people registered as possible because it creates the raw material for election fraud, well, now you have a whole other set of problems that kind of supercharges the weakness.”
That broader fight has increasingly pitted the Justice Department against states including New Jersey and Pennsylvania over federal demands for voter registration data.
Both states’ election agencies — led by a Democrat and a Republican, respectively — resisted the demands, raising privacy and legal objections to releasing unredacted sensitive information.
DOJ TAUNTS MEDIA AFTER TRUMP SCORES WIN IN BATTLEGROUND-STATE BALLOT FIGHT
Video
NJ Republican says motor voter scandal vindicates years of election integrity warnings, pushes for legislative probe
The DOJ, meanwhile, has adopted a “broken-windows theory” approach to investigating potential election violations.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said the agency is applying the crime-fighting theory popularized during former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s administration, which focused on enforcing lower-level offenses in an effort to deter more serious crimes.
Under Dhillon and Attorney General Todd Blanche, the DOJ has prioritized pursuing provable fraud and irregularities in state election processes.
“We need to go after every single one of these violations … I can’t talk about a lot of what we’re doing publicly, but activists and others are giving us leads,” Dhillon recently told Fox News Digital. “And we are carefully running down each.”
CALIFORNIA ACCUSED OF BLOCKING FEDERAL VOTER ROLL AUDIT AS DOJ ESCALATES PROBE OF ELECTION FRAUD CLAIMS
Video
‘Shame on you’: DOJ official suggests Sherrill knew of motor-voter ‘revelations’ earlier
The push has brought the federal government into conflict with states, with critics citing Tenth Amendment concerns over the balance between federal authority and states’ role in administering elections.
Congress has previously used federal funding to pressure states to change policies traditionally administered at the state level. In the 1980s, federal law conditioned a portion of highway funding on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21.
The Justice Department has similarly sued or threatened to sue states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York over voter data and election-record disputes.
Democrats in states facing increased federal scrutiny have pushed back against allegations of intentional wrongdoing.
New Jersey Senate President Nicholas Scutari, D-Scotch Plains, recently told Fox News Digital he agrees that a “healthy democracy” depends on voter-roll security and proper “stewardship” of those trusted to execute “free, fair and accessible elections.”
“It also depends on public trust, and Governor Sherrill deserves credit for being transparent about these failures, taking swift action to launch an independent investigation of what went wrong, and pledging to hold anyone responsible to account,” Scutari said.
At the same time, Scutari’s critics have accused Democrats in New Jersey of failing to prevent voter-roll problems despite repeated warnings about vulnerabilities in the system.
SHERRILL DROPS HEAD-TURNING VOTER ID DECLARATION IN WAKE OF REGISTRATION FIASCO: ‘SIGNIFICANT SHIFT’
Voters cast ballots at a polling location in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, July 7, 2020.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“People were on the honor system,” said New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Kristin Corrado, R-Totowa.
“The fact is that the people in charge for so long said this absolutely was impossible; Republicans were ‘conspiracy theorists’,” added Sen. Declan O’Scanlon of Little Silver, the top Republican on the State Joint Budget Committee.
Other states, including Pennsylvania, have also resisted federal demands for voter data, citing privacy concerns. DeVore said that while serving as a California state lawmaker, he regularly had access to similar voter information.
“Many Democrats see elections as mere census exercises. All they are is a body count. They’re not, in fact, informed citizens casting a ballot with their enlightened self-interest guiding their ballot.”
Pennsylvania officials similarly resisted the Trump administration’s demand for the state’s voter rolls, even after DOJ sued Harrisburg’s elections chief in September.
“This request and reported efforts to collect broad data on millions of Americans represent a concerning attempt to expand the federal government’s role in our country’s electoral process,” Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt — a Philadelphia Republican appointed by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro — wrote in his reply.
“I take seriously the obligations under both federal and Pennsylvania law to ensure that only eligible voters have access to the ballot box and to see to it that Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are appropriately maintained and updated,” Schmidt wrote in a more recent letter to the Justice Department in July.
The SAVE America Act — which would require voter registrants to provide proof of citizenship and voters to show ID — remains stalled in the Senate after Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., sent the chamber into summer recess, angering President Donald Trump and election-security advocates.
SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER
Multiple campaigns present yard signs and regalia outside a polling place in Arizona.(Cassidy Araiza/Getty Images)
DeVore warned, however, that Congress has previously pursued sweeping federal voting legislation and argued that states should take the lead on election safeguards.
He pointed to Democrats’ previous effort to pass the “For the People Act,” legislation sponsored by former Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., which would have restricted some state voter-ID requirements.
“So we need to be somewhat circumspect about using the sledgehammer of federal law to sweep away state powers to order their own affairs,” DeVore said.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
Fox News Digital reached out to Sherrill for additional comment.
Born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in both the New York and Washington bureaus for Fox News since 2013.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403346770112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402689477112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402273992112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402033940112
发表回复