Posted on 10/28/2024 6:33:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former President Donald Trump and Republican leaders across the country have for months characterized the alleged scourge of noncitizen voting as a pressing threat to a free and fair election, using heated rhetoric to suggest that widespread illegal voting could tilt the scales toward Democrats in November.
But a spate of GOP-led inquiries in the weeks leading up to Election Day tell a different story, one that experts have long insisted is true: Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare.
Recent audits of voter rolls in states including Georgia, Ohio, and Iowa uncovered instances of noncitizen voting that overall amounted to only a tiny fraction of the states' overall number of registered voters.
The nationwide push to root out noncitizen voting comes as Trump has made noncitizen voting a key part of his campaign message, telling his supporters that undocumented immigrants are set to vote in record numbers during the upcoming presidential election.
But with noncitizen voting in national elections already illegal and rare, critics have pointed to Trump's rhetoric and the national focus on noncitizen voting as an attempt to intentionally sow distrust and lay the potential groundwork for litigation to challenge the results of the election.
Election experts have expressed concerns about states using unreliable data to flag and purge ineligible voters, which can accidentally ensnare eligible voters -- such as Alabama resident Roald Hazelhoff, who became a citizen two years ago.
"The evidence is out there that there is a very small percentage of individuals and organizations that are trying to derail the democratic process, and this is an example of it," Hazelhoff said. "It's misguided but it's also dangerous and it's intimidating."
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Clearly, the writer has never been to California!
I don’t believe it.
Right, “vanishingly rare,” just like negative covid vax reactions.
Is this some kind of a joke?
First the Dims pretending shock and amazement that we'd even suggest they were doing it, so why bother outlawing it. Then after it was obvious they were, they fought tooth and nail to keep it in place.
With noncitizen voting, we're at the first stage.
“Clearly, the writer has never been to California!”
Nor has the writer been to Virginia lately either. A criminal judge ordered self-identifying illegal-voters to be put back on the voter-rolls.
“Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare. ... “with noncitizen voting in national elections already illegal and rare, critics have pointed to Trump’s rhetoric and the national focus on noncitizen voting as an attempt to intentionally sow distrust and lay the potential groundwork for litigation to challenge the results of the election.”
Then why doesn’t the Left support making noncitizen voting even more rare? If they are not trying to harvest illegal votes, and if they would join in an effort with Republicans to tighten election procedures to further restrict noncitizen voting, they would take the issue away from Trump. But they don’t do that. Just the opposite.
Non-citizens won’t vote this year.
The DNC will vote for them.
ABC is an arm of the Democrat party. Why would anyone believe them?
hum. there’s that word ‘rare’ again.
tyrants of all strips seem to favor it.
What is “rare” is integrity in journalism.
What we have is wacko leftist propaganda.
Ah, Pravda! Of course t’s true!
They expect you to still believe their BS.
Rat gaslighting.
ABC reports without evidence
And the great harm of removing non citizens is that you might remove a citizen by mistake?
How rare is that?
And of course they can still vote they just submit a provisional ballot.
Article says noncitizens voting is “a tiny percentage of registered voters”. What does that mean?
Didn’t Trump lose Georgia by 3,000 votes?
You al are lying pieces of chit that tell half-truths. Yeah, they are not allowed to vote, but when they vote their votes are counted anyway.
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