In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Electoral Studies, we bring real data from big social science survey datasets to bear on the question of whether, to what extent, and for whom non-citizens vote in U.S. elections. Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote. But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races.
Our data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted.
How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote.
Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.
Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.
~~In the case of Al Franken he was the deciding vote for the unpopular ObamaCare law. The implications of this fact are profound. Since there is no doubt that criminal voter fraud by illegals in Minnesota would produce far more than 312 votes. Pew Research determined at the time there were 95,000 illegal aliens in Minnesota. If 75% are over 18 years old that means there are 71,250 voting age illegal aliens. On average that translates into 9,975 illegally registered to vote (14% see fourth paragraph), so in 2008 when Franken ran he would receive about 4,417 extra illegal votes (using conservative figure that 80% go to Democrats). His Republican opponent would have received about 833 extra illegal votes, which means a net gain for Franken of 3,534. That means Franken lost the election by 3,222 votes and was never legally elected a US Senator.
The bottom line is that ObamaCare was passed against the American people’s will by Al Franken, the deciding vote, who lost his election by 3,222 votes. Criminal voter fraud in Minnesota overturned the real result creating what American see as a disaster, ObamaCare. This helps explain why Democrats go out of their way to encourage illegal aliens to flood across the southern border and discourage measures that prevent voter fraud-
Videos of Voter Fraud caught by hidden cameras and rest of story at: http://aun-tv.com/2014/11/harvard-study-illegal-alien-voter-fraud-decides-many-elections-6-4-of-illegals-voted-in-2008/
