15 Oct 2024 8:55 am
Meanwhile, a local news investigation found mailers sent to noncitizens by their union – LIUNA – urging them to “Stop the Steal” and vote for Kamala Harris in November.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project gathered video evidence of noncitizens in Arizona and Georgia admitting on camera that they are registered to vote. They also found fliers in an illegal immigrant staging area in Mexico urging them to vote in November.
Dozens of lawmakers are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland about what he is doing to stop noncitizens from voting. “Clearly, there is a non-negligible amount of voter participation by noncitizens in federal elections,” they say, “which is not only a serious threat to the integrity of our elections and the democratic process they represent, but also has the potential to reduce Americans’ trust and confidence in election results.”
But the Biden-Harris Justice Department appears more interested in preventing states from cleaning their voter rolls of noncitizens.
Last week, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a statement: “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.”
And Democrats blocked a bill – the SAVE Act – that would have simply required some proof of citizenship in order to vote.
It’s almost as if Democrats want to let noncitizens vote.
Yet the press continues to claim this is a non-issue, using the laughably lame argument that noncitizens don’t vote because it’s illegal for them to do so.
And in any case, they say, even if some do vote, it never affects the outcome of an election.
Except that’s a myth, too. A 2014 paper in the journal of Electoral Studies found that “the proportion of noncitizens who voted (in 2008) was less than 15%, but significantly greater than zero. Similarly, in 2010 we found that more than 3% of noncitizens reported voting.”
It went on to say that: “We find that some noncitizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and congressional elections.”
Keep in mind that the 2020 election was decided by a few thousand votes in some states – a small enough margin that illegal voters could make the difference.
So why do the media bury their collective heads in the sand about this? We will give you one guess.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project gathered video evidence of noncitizens in Arizona and Georgia admitting on camera that they are registered to vote. They also found fliers in an illegal immigrant staging area in Mexico urging them to vote in November.
Dozens of lawmakers are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland about what he is doing to stop noncitizens from voting. “Clearly, there is a non-negligible amount of voter participation by noncitizens in federal elections,” they say, “which is not only a serious threat to the integrity of our elections and the democratic process they represent, but also has the potential to reduce Americans’ trust and confidence in election results.”
But the Biden-Harris Justice Department appears more interested in preventing states from cleaning their voter rolls of noncitizens.
Last week, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a statement: “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.”
And Democrats blocked a bill – the SAVE Act – that would have simply required some proof of citizenship in order to vote.
It’s almost as if Democrats want to let noncitizens vote.
Yet the press continues to claim this is a non-issue, using the laughably lame argument that noncitizens don’t vote because it’s illegal for them to do so.
And in any case, they say, even if some do vote, it never affects the outcome of an election.
Except that’s a myth, too. A 2014 paper in the journal of Electoral Studies found that “the proportion of noncitizens who voted (in 2008) was less than 15%, but significantly greater than zero. Similarly, in 2010 we found that more than 3% of noncitizens reported voting.”
It went on to say that: “We find that some noncitizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and congressional elections.”
Keep in mind that the 2020 election was decided by a few thousand votes in some states – a small enough margin that illegal voters could make the difference.
So why do the media bury their collective heads in the sand about this? We will give you one guess.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board