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Noncitizen voting is rare. So why is Washington so focused on it?
Republicans are zeroing in on proof-of-citizenship requirements — even as critics warn federal support for election cybersecurity is quietly shrinking.A flood of Republican-backed efforts to tighten voter ID laws is serving as a distraction from more serious threats to the American voting system, according to top election security experts.
“[Washington] is chasing false narratives and leaving open all the vulnerabilities that are only worse now,” said Michael McNulty, policy director at Issue One, a bipartisan organization that tracks election issues.
Experts like McNulty point to recent rollbacks to frontline programs that protect state and local elections, as well as cuts to the top federal agency that guards electoral systems, as key threats ahead of the midterms. But lawmakers are focused elsewhere: They’re currently debating policy measures to crack down on noncitizen voting and move election certification authorities to the federal government.
The batch of bills brought forward by Republicans includes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act and the Make Elections Great Again Act.
Unpacking Myths About Noncitizen Voting — How Heritage Foundation’s Own Data Proves It’s Not a Problem
This is in line with other analysis carried out following recent elections. For example, a 2017 Brennan Center analysis of 42 jurisdictions which tabulated 23.5 million votes in the 2016 election found that noncitizens were referred for investigation in just 30 cases—or 0.0001% of votes.
Unpacking Myths About Noncitizen Voting — How Heritage Foundation’s Own Data Proves It’s Not a Problem - American Immigration Council
A close examination of the evidence put forward by critics shows just how extraordinarily rare noncitizen voting truly is.
The data shows with absolute certainty voter fraud in the US is virtually non-existent. Therefore, voter ID laws will not make elections any more safe and secure than they already are. Do you know why? Because the data shows with absolute certainty voter fraud in the US is virtually non-existent.
There is only one reason R's are pursuing voter ID laws. The paranoid delusion of one man whose ego will not allow him to accept having lost the 2020 election.
If that man was actually concerned with the safety and security of elections, this...........recent rollbacks to frontline programs that protect state and local elections, as well as cuts to the top federal agency that guards electoral systems, as key threats ahead of the midterms..........would not be happening.
The is no counter factual argument to made about this thread. Why? The data shows with absolute certainty voter fraud in the US is virtually non-existent.