Virginia election officials quietly removed 5,556 voters for being non-citizens, and a new investigation suggests it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, partnering with the Virginia Voters Alliance, found that non-citizens in the Old Dominion voted 7,474 times between 2011 and May 2017.
“Virginia election officials routinely fail to alert law enforcement about these illegal votes or registrations,” PILF president and general counsel J. Christian Adams charged in a new report, “Alien Invasion.”
Edgardo Cortes, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections, discounted PILF’s concerns, saying the information on illegal voters was “readily available on our website.”
But the state site showed only 1,531 non-citizens being removed from Virginia’s voting rolls.
Adams said his group expended 100 hours rooting out illegal voters. He accused Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration of blocking election-integrity legislation.
McAuliffe this year vetoed SB 1581, which would have required local registrars to verify incoming voter applications against state and federal databases, including Social Security records.
The Democratic governor also vetoed SB 872, which would have applied voter-ID protocols to absentee balloting. Read more.....
A research group located out of New Jersey has processed through brand new post-election polling data and found that the number of non citizens voting illegally in U.S. elections is most likely much higher than what had been previously estimated.
The number they came up to as much as 5.7 million. That’s how many non citizens may have voted in the 2008 election, which as we know, but Obama over the top, and into the White House. The research organization Just Facts, a much cited, independent think tank led by those who would call themselves either conservatives and libertarians, disclosed its findings in a report on national immigration.
As many as 5.7 million illegal immigrants might have voted in the 2008 election.
Just Facts President James D. Agresti and his team studied the data from an across-the-board Harvard/YouGov study that every two years, goes back and analyzes a sample size of tens of thousands of voters. Some declare they are non citizens and are thus disqualified from voting.
Just Facts’ conclusions address both sides of the illegal voting debate: those who say voter fraud happens all the time, and those who say the problem just doesn’t exist. Read more
