I & I Editorial BoardEight years ago, the mainstream media told us in no uncertain terms that noncitizens don’t vote in American elections. “There is no evidence,” they said. The likely number “is zero.”
They were provably wrong then – there’d been multiple accounts of noncitizens who’d registered and voted in elections. In the years since, the evidence of this problem has piled up higher. But the media are still at it. It’s “extremely rare,” they say. It never “affects the outcome of a race.” Republicans are looking to “blame illegals” if Donald Trump loses, etc.
Here’s one example of the disconnect.
An audit of Texas voter rolls in 2019 found 95,000 noncitizens who’d registered, 58,000 of whom voted in an election. This year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he’d removed 6,500 noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, nearly 2,000 of whom voted.
Yet just this weekend, ABC News ran a piece titled: “In South Texas, the myth of noncitizen voting takes center stage.”
But it’s the media that’s peddling the myth. Voter rolls are criminally outdated and error prone. Some states are so eager to register voters that they don’t put up needed safeguards. When election officials do bother to audit their registration rolls, they keep turning up thousands of noncitizens.
Consider these recent examples:
- Virginia’s attorney general recently announced the state moved 6,303 noncitizens from its voter rolls in 2022 and 2023.
- Arizona admitted a massive error in its voter rolls resulted in 218,000 registered voters who lacked proof of U.S. citizenship.
- A suit filed in Nevada asserts that as many as 11,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state and nearly 4,000 of them voted in 2020.
- An Oregon audit found nearly 1,300 noncitizens registered to vote in that state.
- Ohio’s secretary of state found nearly 600 noncitizens registered to vote.
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 question at hand is how many illegal aliens will vote this November. The answer is all of them. Unlike Republicans who are content to sit back and complain, Democrats put up their money to have their operatives prepare ballots for our new residents. They will be rewarded with ever growing federal power and plunder.
Illegals will not vote in this election. The NGO’s will take their mail-in ballots and vote for them. They have ballot harvesting rooms all set up. They just need to know how many and where they are needed.
Imagine if Republicans got RIGHT on top of the Democrat election theft problem in 2020? Instead of spending years helping the Democrats cover up the theft by denying it WITH them and policing anyone in the RNC who spoke up?
Can you site some sources?
Roy, the word is “cite”.
File Under: Democrats for Election Fraud
White liberals are accessories to all manner of crime.
For aliens who vote illegally, they should be barred from ever becoming citizens and possibly deported. When they are found to have voted their name should be checked on following elections and deported if they ever vote again.
It’s one thing to allow illegal aliens to remain in the country, but we DO NOT have to tolerate their seditious lawlessness.
In late August, with a hotly contested presidential election less than three months away, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted that the state had removed more than 1 million ineligible voters from its rolls, including more than 6,500 noncitizens.
The Republican governor said the Texas secretary of state’s office was turning over nearly 2,000 of those characterized as noncitizens to Attorney General Ken Paxton for investigation because records showed they had a voting history.
“Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated,” Abbott said in a press release.
The former registered voters whom Abbott called noncitizens, and the other people removed from the rolls since September 2021, were taken off through a routine practice local election officials conduct that includes culling the names of people who have moved or died. Election experts have urged caution in using the numbers to make definitive statements about registered noncitizens.
But Abbott did just that, initially stating in his news release that thousands of noncitizens had been stripped from the rolls.
His office then edited the press release after publication, softening it by adding the word “potential” before noncitizens.
An investigation by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat, however, found that the governor’s claims about noncitizens on the rolls appear inflated and, in some cases, wrong.
The secretary of state’s office identified 581 people, not 6,500, as noncitizens, according to a report it gave Abbott in late August that the newsrooms obtained through a public information request.
In response to questions about the basis for Abbott’s larger number, the secretary of state’s office told the news organizations that it had “verbally” provided the governor’s office with a separate number of people removed from the rolls who failed to respond to letters alerting them that there were questions about their citizenship.
The governor’s news release combined the two figures.
That means U.S. citizens who simply never received or responded to such letters are almost certainly included in Abbott’s 6,500 number. Abbott did not respond to requests for comment, and Secretary of State Jane Nelson declined to be interviewed.
After attempting to contact more than 70 people across both categories, the news organizations have so far found at least nine U.S. citizens in three Texas counties who were incorrectly labeled as noncitizens or removed from the rolls because they did not respond to the letters about their citizenship. In each case, they showed reporters copies of their birth certificates to confirm their citizenship, or reporters verified their citizenship using state records.
One of them is 21-year-old Jakylah Ockleberry.
Ockleberry, a native Texan who provided the news organizations with a copy of her birth certificate, had only left the state twice in her life, including a recent trip to California.
Hours later, Nelson provided Paxton the voter records for anyone who does not have a Texas driver’s license or identification card number on file in its statewide voter registration system. The list was accompanied by an explicit warning.
“The records do not reflect, and are in no way indicative of, a list of potential non-United States citizens on the State’s voter rolls,” Nelson wrote
we need to track them down and put them in prison for at least a year and then deport them, forever.
Keep an eye on Texas.
It would be extremely helpful if such stories could cite specific sources. The data is impressive — but quite useless without a source.
A few will vote. That is what always happens. But that is not the question.
For all the years the dead have been voting in places like Chicago, how many actually cast their own ballot? None. Yet their votes were cast and counted.
The purpose of the dirty voter rolls is so that the dirty Democrat organizations can cast and count ballots in those names.
And that is why the Democrats fight tooth and nail to stop voter rolls from being cleaned up.
That is also why many foreigners are automatically registered to vote simply by getting a driver’s license.
Just look at Virginia. Foreigners marked that status on their applications but somebody registered them to vote anyways. The state tries to clean that up, and the Partisan Democrat DOJ sues to stop the state.
It is all about the Democrats casting and counting votes in the names of people ineligible to vote. The dead in Chicago.
Now noncitizens too, but everywhere the partisan federal government sent them in vast numbers.