December 15, 2023

Very recently, the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports released the shocking results of their survey of 1,085 national likely voters.  Of the ten questions asked, I think the most disturbing responses were related to these:

  • “During the 2020 election, did you cast a mail-in ballot in a state where you were no longer a permanent resident?” (17% said, “Yes.”).
  • “During the 2020 election, did a friend, family member, or organization, such as a political party, offer to pay or reward you for voting?” (8% said, “Yes.”).
  • “Do you know a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance who has admitted to you that he or she filled out a ballot on behalf of another person?” (11% said, “Yes.”).

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Those results are bad enough, but I’d like to expand them to include two groups that probably did not respond to the survey: noncitizens and dead people.  I could be wrong about the noncitizens, but I am certain I am correct with regard to our lately departed friends.

In 2018, at an event with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams told supporters that a “blue wave” would carry her to victory in her competition with Brian Kemp.  That wave, she emphasized, would include both documented and undocumented voters.

It may seem shocking that a major candidate would advocate the recruitment of illegal voters, but Abrams was simply saying out loud what many politicians seem to welcome.

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The impact of noncitizens on the Electoral College

Noncitizens have significantly impacted our elections for decades, in more ways than one.  Let’s start with the impact of noncitizens on the Electoral College.  The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that noncitizens constitute 6.5 percent of the U.S. population.  If that estimate is correct, we can calculate exactly how many of the electoral votes are assigned to that illegal element of our population.  The number is 29.

Who gets those 29 electoral votes?  Primarily, they are awarded to certain Democrat “sanctuary” states and to border states.  Those include Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, and the State of Washington, along with Washington, D.C.  Of course, with Biden’s open border policy, the 29 noncitizen electors will rise sharply after the next Census.  In a close election, those noncitizen “electors” could change the presidential election results.

Noncitizens who vote in Texas

In early 2019, the Texas secretary of state compiled a list of about 95,000 people who appeared to be noncitizens yet had also registered to vote in one or more elections.  In addition, the secretary found 58,000 noncitizens who might have actually voted.  It was not a final list: the goal was simply to make inquiries.  But the Republican secretary of state did not understand that sensitive Democrat voters might find those questions intimidating.  Soon, multiple lawsuits were filed (claiming voter intimidation), and a quick judicial decision shut down the process.

As a result of the court’s ruling, the Texas secretary of state was forced to modify his procedures, and he made modifications that seriously undermined efforts to investigate noncitizen voting.