Government IT

NJ Just Registered 6,600 Non-Citizens to Vote. The Real Scandal Is What Nobody’s Fixing.

New Jersey’s MVC accidentally registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote — and the outrage machine went straight to ‘voter fraud.’ But the practical risk is near zero: non-citizens face deportation for voting, making the risk-reward absurd. The real scandal is that motor-voter systems nationwide lack real-time citizenship verification, meaning every state is one bug away from this exact failure. And nobody’s fixing it because the actual solution is too boring to go viral.

Stop Blaming the Privacy Watchdog for the UK’s eVisa Disaster. It Was Never Going to Save You.

The UK’s eVisa rollout is a disaster, locking lawful residents out of their own legal status. Campaigners are blaming the ICO for not stopping it — but the privacy watchdog never had the power to do so. The real crisis isn’t government incompetence; it’s a legal framework that expects regulators to police systems they have no authority to block.