Noncitizens Caught Voting in U.S. Elections — Here’s How They Did It; House GOP Eyes Election Safeguards to Block ‘dangerously high number’ of Illegal Immigrants From Voting

Noncitizens caught voting in U.S. elections — here’s how they did it:

Illegal noncitizen voters were three times more likely to be Dems than GOP

Eloy Alberto Zayas-Berrier was part of the infamous Mariel boatlift that brought 125,000 Cubans, including criminals and mental hospital patients, to the U.S. in 1980.

He’s been here ever since in a bizarre legal limbo. He can’t qualify for citizenship and Cuba has refused to take him back, so he’s been stuck on “parole.” He remains here with only the barest of legal protections and cannot get a green card. He is decidedly not a citizen.

That did not, however, stop him from showing up at an early-voting location in North Carolina on Nov. 5, 2016, where he not only registered and claimed to be a citizen, but cast an early-ballot vote that same day.

Mr. Zayas says he went with a friend who was planning to vote. He says the poll worker encouraged him to sign up and vote, too.

He showed his government-issued work permit as identification. The poll worker filled out a form for Mr. Zayas, who cannot read English. He registered as a Democrat. And then he cast his ballot.

To hear the fact-checkers, Mr. Zayas is rarer than a lightning strike. They say noncitizens just don’t vote in U.S. elections. They have too much to lose, the system can detect them, and there’s just no incentive to do it anyway.

Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson disagree.

In a high-profile meeting last month the two men found common ground in declaring noncitizen voting a serious threat to ballot integrity.

Mr. Johnson in particular said illegal immigrants allowed in by President Biden’s border chaos are showing up at government offices to sign up for benefits and services, and when they do they’re being prodded to sign up to vote.

Neither side can say with certainty whether that’s common or rare, but it is undeniable that it happens — as a series of criminal cases out of North Carolina shows.

Federal prosecutors in the state brought charges against 37 noncitizens who voted in the 2016 election. Some, like Mr. Zayas, voted in many more elections. Others were one-time voters, showing up, registering and casting a ballot all on the same day in 2016.

It’s about as good a sample size as is possible for this type of thing, and some trends emerged from the data. —>READ MORE HERE (and/or HERE)

House GOP eyes election safeguards to block ‘dangerously high number’ of illegal immigrants from voting:

Speaker Mike Johnson held a high-profile press conference unveiling the SAVE Act on Wednesday

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled legislation on Wednesday aimed at blocking non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections.

Johnson held a high-profile press conference at the base of the U.S. Capitol to promote the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act alongside the bill’s leaders in the House and Senate, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

The speaker warned that a “dangerously high number” of illegal immigrants are able to vote in U.S. elections and said it could even affect who wins or loses.

“Due to the wide open border that the Biden administration has refused to close, in fact, that they engineered to open, we now have so many non-citizens in the country that if only one out of 100 of those voted, they would cast hundreds of thousands of votes,” Johnson said.

“And since our elections are so razor-thin… and a few states decide the makeup of Congress and who is elected to the White House, this is a dangerously high number, and it is a great concern to millions and millions of Americans. It could obviously change the outcome of our elections.”

Johnson later conceded that it’s not known how many illegal immigrants or non-citizens have voted in U.S. elections, but said the bill would definitely stop any instances of it from taking place.

“States are not allowed right now to prove if somebody claims on that simple form that they’re a citizen, they can vote. They’re not allowed to prove whether it’s true or not. We all know intuitively that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it’s not been something that is easily provable,” he said. “We don’t have that number. This legislation will allow us to do exactly that. It will prevent that from happening.” —>READ MORE HERE

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