| Washington, D.C. (October 30, 2018) [From a post by Preston Huennekens]- In an effort to encourage more Americans to register to vote, Congress and then-President Bill Clinton enacted the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) in 1993. Commonly referred to as "Motor Voter", the law mandates that "states provide individuals with the opportunity to register to vote at the same time that they apply for a driver's license or seek to renew a driver's license."
Due to the NVRA, many aliens have been mistakenly registered to vote in federal and state elections by the DMV. To understand how common this mistake is, as recently as this month the California DMV discovered that 1,500 legal immigrants were registered to vote within a span of only five months.
View the full post: https://www.cis.org/Huennekens/Aliens-and-Voter-Fraud
The following cases are just several of a number of accounts that detail alien voting fraud and its impact on the electoral system: 2008 Presidential Election. A 2014 article published in the journal Electoral Studies found that "non-citizen voters likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform." The report also noted that "there is reason to believe non-citizen voting changed one state's Electoral College votes in 2008, delivering North Carolina to Obama." Public Interest Legal Foundation. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) published two reports detailing the specific instances in which aliens were registered to vote. The first, from August 2018, details how at least 3,100 aliens were registered to vote in 13 different sanctuary jurisdictions between 2006 and 2018. The second report focused exclusively on the Commonwealth of Virginia. PILF released a September 2016 report titled "Alien Invasion in Virginia", which highlighted the ways in which 1,046 aliens registered to vote in eight counties North Carolina Department of Justice Case. The Justice Department charged 19 aliens accused of illegally voting in the 2016 election. A New York Times piece said that the accused "were confused about their eligibility to vote." This was likely due to a lack of education and awareness around the fact that non-citizens, even those with legal permanent residence (green card) status, cannot vote in federal and state elections until they become citizens. Increased education on this point was one of PILF's suggested solutions for curbing voting fraud. Heritage Foundation Voter Fraud Database. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, maintains a list of election fraud cases, including instances of ineligible voting and false registrations totaling 400 cases.
Preston Huennekens, a research associate at the Center and the author of the analysis, wrote, "Lawmakers need to take the threat of aliens voting more seriously. Motor Voter is a flawed piece of legislation that has made it far easier for aliens to vote by entrusting voter registration to DMV employees who may not be qualified to differentiate between aliens and citizens."
Contact:
Marguerite Telford
Director of Communications, Center for Immigration Studies
mrt@cis.org
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