How Many Illegals Have Registered To Vote In Arkansas

by Lil Tuttle

How many illegal residents and other ineligible voters cast votes in U.S. elections? New studies suggest enough to swing election outcomes, and that's an unacceptable situation for nearly U.Southward. citizens who value their constitutional rights. President Trump has created a new Presidential Committee to do an extensive study, become definitive answers, and present concrete solutions to clean upwardly our inadequate voter registration and balloting systems.

2 Recent Studies, Similar Conclusions

Research published in 2016 in the Electoral Studies Journal by political scientists Jesse T. Richman and Gushan A. Chattha of Old Rule, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University estimated as many as 2.8 million illegal votes were cast in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Non-denizen participation in U.S. elections, wrote the authors, "has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral Colleges votes, and Congressional elections."

"The bombshell [in the inquiry] was this," wrote editors at Investor'south Business Daily:

Noncitizen votes probable gave Senate Democrats the pivotal lx^th vote needed to overcome filibusters in society to pass health intendance reform and other Obama assistants priorities in the 111^th Congress.

A few Democratic-affiliated researchers disagreed. Researchers Stephen Ansolabehere (Harvard), Samantha Luks (YouGov) and Brian Schaffner (UM-Amherst) dismissed the Richman et. al. study, later writing "the likely percent of not-citizen voters in recent U.S. elections is 0."

Just Facts, an independent New Jersey research organisation, released the results of its study in June 2017. Using all-encompassing information from a Harvard/YouGov written report of tens of thousands of voters, Merely Facts "estimated that as many as 7.ix meg noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in 2008, and 594,000 to 5.seven million voted [in the 2008 U.S. presidential election]."

[Note: After PolitiFact declared the results of his organisation's report "false," Just Facts' president James D. Agresti responded with this autopsy of PolitiFact'southward statement.]

Evidence of Illegal Voting

As political combatants argue whether illegal voting occurs, audits in states and localities are supplying show that information technology does.

A Public Interest Legal Foundation audit of a sample of Virginia voting records identified v,500 noncitizens who were registered to vote during this decade, with ane,852 of them casting ballots.
Another Public Involvement Legal Foundation inspect of a sample of Philadelphia voting records identified 86 non-citizens registered, with 40 of them casting votes in at least 1 contempo election.
A North Carolina State Lath of Elections audit discovered 508 ineligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election.

How Practice They Go Away with It?

Easily, says the Federation for American Immigration Reform, given the lack of controls on voter registration/voting and the low risk of prosecution if they commit voter fraud. Off-white cites 1 example in which a Canadian woman registered to vote in New York and voted in xx elections before federal officials finally prosecuted her.Twelve states and the Commune of Columbia permit non-citizens residents to obtain drivers licenses, and land DMVs, interim as proxies under the "Motor-Voter Constabulary," often add these drivers to voter registration rolls with few checks and balances.

In an endeavor to prevent corrupt voter registration processes, the Real ID Act of 2005 required all states to confirm immigration status when issuing drivers licenses, but merely 24 states are in compliance.If legal documentation is a problem, fake papers are cheap. A retired Clearing officer told Bill O'Reilly on air that he routinely encountered illegals with voter registration cards who admitted voting in elections, adding:

Illegals typically buy fraudulent documents in threes: A counterfeit resident alien card or work authorization carte, plus a apocryphal California driver's license, and a counterfeit Social Security card, which costs about $120 to $300.

California Gold

Many states have inadequate systems in place to forestall unlawful voting, argues Judicial Scout.

California is 1 instance. California has the nearly unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., according to Pew Enquiry, "about ii.three million in 2014." As we noted here, California also permits all residents in the state to apply for a commuter'south license. And under a 2016 police, those who apply for a driver's license are automatically added to voter registration lists unless they specifically "opt out."

As with other states, California does an inadequate job of maintaining its voter registration lists. Linda Paine, president of the Election Integrity Project, told the Washington Times that "8 of 58 California counties now take more than 100% voter-registration rates based on figures posted Feb 20^thursday by Secretarial assistant of State Alex Padilla."

More 100%? California's voter lists combine agile and inactive voters, explains Paine, and no ID is required when casting a vote.

Information technology's disquisitional that every eligible California citizen who wants to vote tin easily register. Only the state's woefully inadequate voter list maintenance is creating misleading statistics for our lawmakers and put the votes of lawful voting citizens at run a risk of voter fraud. …

All one need practise [to vote illegally] is look at the posted listing, memorize a name and address, repeat information technology to the poll workers, and receive that person'due south ballot, no questions asked.

If an Olympic medal were awarded for best in facilitating unlawful voting, the state would win the aureate.

Presidential Commission

On May xi, 2017, President Trump established a Presidential Commission to study the registration and voting processes used in federal elections and to place the laws, rules, policies, activities, strategies and practices that enhance or undermine the American people's confidence in the integrity of its electoral process.

For the sake of every U.S. citizen who wants a trustworthy, reliable electoral process, we hope the Commission takes its work seriously and urgently to produce definitive answers and legislative solutions to the questions and problems owned in our voting process.