By Daniel Greenfield —— Bio and Archives January 25, 2017
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How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010. Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections.WaPo insists that Trump’s claim has no evidence even though the evidence has been repeatedly cited. It got so bad that WaPo’s fact checker called its own paper a dubious source. But that’s just the media’s alternative facts and alternate reality. The original study was dangerous because too much of the political machine runs on voter fraud. And the obvious solution, Voter ID, has been fought tooth and nail.
An election expert projects more than 800,000 noncitizens voted in the 2016 election and overwhelmingly for Democrat Hillary Clinton. While substantial, that number doesn’t overcome Clinton’s 2.2 million popular vote lead over Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who won a decisive Electoral College triumph of 306 to 232.Of course this is guesswork and it depends on very limited information. It also doesn’t account for the more organized voter fraud efforts that you tend to see in hard blue urban areas.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.