Daily Update - December 5, 2025

Far past time to clean the voter rolls in North Carolina

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This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Friday December 5th, 2025.

According to the North State Journal, the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 3-2 on Monday along party lines to use a federal program called SAVE in order to make sure only citizens are voting in our elections.

The Democrats all voted against it.

Cleaning up the rolls before the March primaries will be impossible, as the National Voter Registration Act prohibits cleaning voting rolls 90 days before any election. But they certainly can have it done before November.

A study by JustFacts found that roughly 10% - 27% of non-citizen adults are registered to vote in the US. The numbers are so broad because by their very nature non-citizens are hard to track. One opposing study even put it at 1%.

But to put percentages into real numbers, the 2022 census reported a population of 19.7 million voting-age non-citizens in the US. This is a bare minimum guess – as many claim to be citizens or just simply do not respond to the survey.

If we take the low number of 1% - that is 197,000 votes that could sway an election. If we take the average rate cited by JustFacts, that count goes higher to over 3 ½ million. If we evenly divide those numbers among the states, North Carolina could have between 4000 to 8000 adults illegally registered to vote. The 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race was decided for the Democrat by a margin of 734 votes.

It is far past time to make sure those who go to the polls are actually legally allowed to vote.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.

Reuel Sample is the Editor-in-Chief of The Wilmington Standard. A graduate of Grove City College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he has served as both a Presbyterian Pastor and a Navy Chaplain. He is the product of a classical liberal arts education combined with real world experience in politics and business and conservative Christian worldview firmly rooted in the Reformed tradition. He is the host of several podcasts including the NHC GOP Podcast, the Pastor's Voice, and co-hosts the Nikki and Reuel Podcast Experience. An avid sailor, he has sailed around the world as a youth and to the Azores as a teen as well as extensive trips up and down the east coast of the United States. He is honored to be married to his wife Pam and makes his home in Wilmington, NC.