HOW
MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS? by Dave Gibson, 9/24/18.
On
November 6, 2018, elections will take place in all 50 states, contesting all
435 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as 35 of this country’s 100
Senate seats.
Given
that our elections system is incredibly vulnerable, due to the fact that Voter
ID laws are either not in place in all 50 states, or simply not enforced in
some, along with President Trump’s stance against illegal immigration, the
question becomes…How many illegal aliens will vote this year?
In
2017, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Manassas) requested that the
state’s more than 130 county and municipal governments turn over their
respective data on non-citizens, currently listed in jury pools.
The
ensuing data showed that officials in Loudoun County disqualified more
than 9,000 non-citizens between 2009 and 2014, according to The Washington Times.
Potential
jurists in the Northern Virginia county are chosen from both voter registration rolls, as well as Department of
Motor Vehicle driver’s license applications.
In
2016, the Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which
researches voter rolls and often brings legal action to protect the integrity
of the election process, began examining the voter rolls in several Virginia
cities and counties, in order to determine the number of foreign nationals, if
any, illegally registered to vote in the state.
“In
light of the recent case developments, PILF is now preparing new measures for
Virginia jurisdictions still refusing to provide records indicating non-citizen
voting activity. PILF previously found more than
1,000 aliens were on Virginia’s voter rolls. These records of alien removal from
the rolls were provided by other counties who complied with PILF’s requests for
information,” the group stated in a January, 2017, press release.
Furthermore,
political science professor Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University, recently
published an update to his 2014 study on the number of foreign nationals
voting in our elections.
The
report alleges “that 6.4 percent of non-citizens
voted, and that of the non-citizens who voted, 81.8 percent voted for Clinton
and 17.5 percent voted for Trump.”
That
would translate into 834,381 illegally-cast votes for
Clinton, according
to professor Richman.
While
it is obvious that the nation’s voter rolls are in need of a thorough house
cleaning, Clinton actually received 2.8 million more votes than did Donald Trump, thus, dismissing the president’s claim
that “millions” of illegal immigrants gave Clinton the popular vote.
However,
the problem of foreign nationals having any influence on our election process
is apparently widespread, and may have been made worse by former President
Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In
2013, the state of North Carolina began issuing driver’s licenses to illegal
immigrants who qualified for the DACA program. Officials had originally planned
to place an easily distinguishable pink stripe at the top of the license, along
with the words “NO LAWFUL STATUS” in large, red letters, but under pressure
from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that plan was abandoned.
Now,
the DACA license is indistinguishable from any other North Carolina license,
save for the phrase “NO LAWFUL STATUS. LEGAL PRESENCE EXPS.: 00/00/0000,” which
appears in very tiny print and could easily be missed by a poll worker.
In
2014, the citizens’ advocacy group known as NCFIRE announced that North
Carolina driver’s licenses have been issued to 14,836 of those with DACA
status. Of those nearly 15,000, about 10,000 of them have recently been
discovered on state’s voter rolls.
The
North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles submitted the list to the
Department of Homeland Security, for cross checking. NCFIRE did their own study
and reported some troubling results.
Of that number, the often cited 145 DACA
individuals who received a NC driver’s license and were registered to vote, was
eventually pared down to 119. That still left a list of 9,984 individuals
identified by the NC DMV as being “not citizens” by means other than DACA and
registered to vote (i.e: green card holders, permanent resident status, etc…).
After an exhaustive search by the NC State Board of
Elections, cross checking the names with the Department of Homeland Security,
the original 10,000+/- names were eventually reduced to 2,890 whose citizenship
status was “non-citizen” and who also appeared on the NC voter rolls.
Of that number, 1,250 of them are confirmed illegal
aliens and 1,640 do not have enough information to even check if they are legal
or illegal, through the DHS.
Though
the votes cast by foreign nationals were not the deciding factor in the 2016 presidential
election, it is certainly conceivable that in a tight race, thousands, or even
just hundreds of illegally-cast votes could easily make the difference, and
actually deliver an erroneous result.
It
is currently considered a felony for any non-citizen to vote in a federal
election. The punishment can result in imprisonment, a fine, and deportation.
There are several
locations in the state of Maryland which allow foreign nationals to vote in
local elections, such as Hyattsville, Takoma Park, and Chevy Chase.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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