Non-citizen voting -- election fraud in the making
Non-citizen voting -- election fraud in the making
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 7/22/2008 9:10:00 AM
A new study warns that fraudulent votes by non-citizens, including illegal aliens, could swing this year's local and national elections.
"When you learn that half of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote, that's when you realize that the honor system the country has for its voter registration system is broken," explains Hans von Spakovsky, a visiting scholar at the Heritage Foundation and author of a new report titled "The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting."
The study says tens if not hundreds of thousands of non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, are registered to vote nationwide. Former Federal Election Commission member von Spakovsky points out the U.S. expects individuals, when they register to vote, to comply with the law and not register if they are not American citizens -- but people are clearly breaking that law and there is no way for the government to detect it, he states.
"The state of Utah did a limited audit just of their DMV records," von Spakovsky contends. "That limited audit showed hundreds of aliens who were registered to vote, and one of the state senators said that if you extended that audit to the entire DMV records, he estimated that there were five [thousand] to 7,000 aliens registered to vote in that state."
Von Spakovsky says non-citizen voting is likely growing at the same rate as the alien population in the U.S.
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-California) believes the study is an effort by Republicans to disenfranchise minority voters. Von Spakovsky says Lofgren's claim is simply untrue. "The federal government requires all employers, before they can employ any American, to have that American present proof of citizenship. Now the states should be doing the same thing," von Spakovsky points out. "And I think it's pretty hard to claim that if the states were to ask for a proof of citizenship before you registered to vote in exactly the same way as the federal government requires you to provide proof of citizenship before you're able to get a job, that that somehow is discriminatory."
Von Spakovsky notes that one of the closest congressional races in recent years – the Loretta Sanchez-Bob Dornan contest in 1996 – was "almost stolen" by non-citizen voting in California.
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