How do you really stop the voter fraud?
Our research cannot answer whether the United States should move to legalize some electoral participation by non-citizens as many other countries do, and as some U.S. states did for more than 100 years, or find policies that more effectively restrict it.
To the professors who authored the posted article:
Here's a very logical two-step state policy that will more effectively restrict the "electoral participation by non-citizens", a policy which you would never have the courage to mention, certainly not in a WaPo article:
(1)Require all persons registering to vote for the first time to prove they are citizens via either (A) a birth certificate showing they were born in the US or on American soil or (B) (if not born in the US or on American soil) a certificate of naturalization. (Regrettably, this is currently the law in only a handful of states.)
(2)Arrest any non-citizen who even tries to vote and book him/her for the crime committed by so doing. Once word gets around that such arrests are really happening, non-citizens in general will be sure to stay as far away from polling places as possible. American citizenship should mean something - as the law in all states says it should.
We American citizens have had enough of this electoral cheating and fraud!!!