Oct 6, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
The midterms are coming—and before we argue about who should win, maybe we should talk about the one thing that actually decides it: voting. In this episode of The Sandy Hackett Show, Sandy takes a…
Are you an American citizen? Are you 18? Do you live here? Are you registered? Congratulations, you can vote.
Now, we need databases, social security records, immigration files, barcodes, federal investigations, and possibly nine Supreme Court justices checking whether your name has a hyphen.
In order to legally vote in a federal election, you already have to be an American citizen.
Contrary to anything Trump or anyone else would try to get you to believe, non-citizens do not have a legal right to vote.
The argument is whether protecting elections means making eligible American citizens prove, again, And again, that they're Americans or American citizens.
Because if the government's computer doesn't recognize you, that doesn't mean you aren't a citizen.
It probably means the government's computer is doing what the government computers do.
Taking three days to tell you that the information you entered correctly doesn't match the information they entered incorrectly.
The government already knows everything about you when it doesn't need to, and it knows nothing about you when it needs to.
Are you an American citizen? Are you 18? Do you live here? Are you registered? Congratulations, you can vote.
Now, we need databases, social security records, immigration files, barcodes, federal investigations, and possibly nine Supreme Court justices checking whether your name has a hyphen.
In order to legally vote in a federal election, you already have to be an American citizen.
Contrary to anything Trump or anyone else would try to get you to believe, non-citizens do not have a legal right to vote.
The argument is whether protecting elections means making eligible American citizens prove, again, And again, that they're Americans or American citizens.
Because if the government's computer doesn't recognize you, that doesn't mean you aren't a citizen.
It probably means the government's computer is doing what the government computers do.
Taking three days to tell you that the information you entered correctly doesn't match the information they entered incorrectly.
The government already knows everything about you when it doesn't need to, and it knows nothing about you when it needs to.
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