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To that end, consider the following. We know that since 2021, at bare
minimum, seven million more non-citizens have been added to the mix. If
one applies the Old Dominion/George
Mason study with the lower 2.2 percent number it reached, that suggests
a minimum of 140,000 new non-citizen votes in the 2024 cycle. If we
apply the 6.4 percent level attributed
to the 2008 presidential cycle (people
vote at much higher levels in those
cycles) the number of freshly added
potential non-citizen votes soars to
440,000 or more.
Where any migrants who might
manage to vote have been placed
during the past three years could be
critical given those slim margins of
victory in swing states in 2020.
Democrats and the mostly left
media have declared the issue to be
another conservative red herring.
But Georgia Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger noted during a recent
“Meet the Press” panel discussion that
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he is the first secretary of state in the
nation to have a 100 percent verification of citizenship on Georgia’s voter
rolls and urged others to do so.
The “Meet the Press” host stated
that non-citizen voting is rare and
illegal. And Arizona’s Democratic
secretary of state chimed in with the
“it’s a red herring” argument. But an
Arizona U.S. District Court recently
struck down an Arizona law requiring
that individuals seeking to register to
vote in federal elections must list their
birthplace. That same court previously ruled that Arizona may not require
documentary proof citizenship to vote
in a federal election.
President Biden’s Department
of Justice praised that decision by
saying, “This ruling provides a cautionary note that should discourage
officials from considering imposition
of restrictive or burdensome proof of
citizenship demands or requests for
unnecessary information from voters
before registering them to vote in
federal elections.”
That mindset from the Biden administration makes that study showing non-citizen voting as an issue a
bit more persuasive this year. Somewhere between an aggressive federal
government and activist judges the
true universe of voters this cycle can
likely be found. And it could decide
the election.
