Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D–CT) claims that there is no need to pass a law that would require proof of American citizenship to register to vote because “our elections in this country are wildly clean.”
IN FACT, scientific surveys of non-citizens combined with voter registration records in 2008, 2012, and 2022 found that roughly 10% to 27% of non-citizens in the U.S. are illegally registered to vote, and about half of these people turned out to vote.
Attempts to dispute those facts by the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, PolitiFact, Snopes, the Cato Institute, and others suffer from these 10 fatal flaws:
- They fail to account for the reality that identity fraud is rampant among illegal immigrants, and California Senate Leader Kevin De Leon (D) confessed that “anyone who has family members who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification,” such as “a false Social Security card,” “a false driver’s license,” or “a false green card.”
- They assert that the non-citizen voters in the surveys were actually citizens who mistakenly identified themselves as non-citizens, but in reality, this claim never had merit and was recently demolished by a verifying survey question that found “an error rate of 0.”
- They invoke the authority of “over 200 political scientists” who said that the survey results are unreliable when, in reality, their argument was based entirely on the discredited claim that citizen voters misidentified themselves as non-citizens.
- They employ mathematically illiterate arguments, like assuming that the main driver of survey statistical power is numerators when, in reality, it is denominators.
- They falsely refer to straightforward applications of survey data as “extrapolations” while routinely citing similar figures without tagging them with that misleading label.
- They declare that the surveys don’t “constitute a representative sample” of non-citizens when, in reality, the evidence suggests they do.
- They allege that convictions for voter fraud are the only firm evidence on this issue when, in reality, convictions are a highly incomplete measure because the laws are frequently unenforced, and there are large loopholes to avoid them.
- They downplay the academic credentials of scholars who conduct studies that find significant rates of illegal voter registration while ignoring the political donations of scholars who contest them.
- They purge hyperlinks when quoting key statements from research on this issue, thus misportraying thoroughly documented facts as unsupported assertions.
- They cite narrow, warped, and futile measures that grossly underestimate the rate of non-citizen voter registration without disclosing the fallacies, assumptions, and limitations that underlie these measures.
Every illegal vote cast by a non-citizen nullifies the legal vote of a citizen, thereby subverting their Constitutional right to vote.
Based on the latest available data, roughly 1.0 million to 2.7 million non-citizens illegally voted in the 2024 national elections.
Instead of reporting these facts or mitigating this threat to every citizen’s right to vote, major media outlets, “fact checkers,” certain scholars, and leading Democrats are denying this problem exists.
