The Noncitizen Voting Threat to the 2024 Election
A deep dive reveals vulnerabilities in our election system -- and how authorities are or are not grappling with them
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I’ve published a deep dive at RealClearInvestigations examining the threat of noncitizen voting to the integrity of the 2024 election, analyzing vulnerabilities in our election system, and reporting on what state and federal authorities are doing — if anything — to combat it.
Some highlights below:
More than a dozen jurisdictions run by Democrats – including Washington D.C., and several adjacent Maryland municipalities – allow noncitizens to vote in some local elections.
Given the millions of illegal migrants streaming into the United States under the Biden-Harris administration, many Republicans fear a widespread effort to give noncitizens the full benefits of citizenship, including the right to vote in all elections, on top of benefits already available to illegal aliens in some places, notably drivers licenses, food stamps, government health care, and work visas.
Battlegrounds from Pennsylvania to Virginia to Arizona to North Carolina and beyond report that thousands of noncitizens have been discovered on voter rolls in the past decade, with unknown numbers already having voted.
Republicans argue that such examples expose weaknesses in the voter registration process – including that registrants need not provide proof of citizenship.
Critic: there is “almost nothing” the public or political parties can do after an election to identify and invalidate noncitizen votes prior to election certification.
States generally seem unfazed by the prospect of noncitizen voting, with an Arizona official taking umbrage with my questions in connection with the piece, e-mailing me: “I hope the following statement compels you to clear up notions and erroneous assumptions...”
Said Arizona official: “Someone would have to knowingly and intentionally commit a class 6 Felony if they did vote as a noncitizen, and it would result in the revocation of their legal status in the USA, and they would likely face deportation.”
Read the whole thing here.