Confirmed: Non-citizen voters boosting Democrats

A new study puts numbers behind the claim that the votes of non-U.S. citizens in the 2008 presidential election handed the White House to Barack Obama.

 

The study authored by Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha and David C. Earnest, who are affiliated with Old Dominion and George Mason Universities, found the number of non-citizen voters "could range from just over 38,000 at the very minimum to nearly 2.8 million at the maximum."

Of the non-citizens who voted in 2008, the study found "81.8 percent reported voting for Barack Obama compared to 17.5 percent for John McCain."

The tendency of non-citizens to vote for Democrats was confirmed two years later.

"Similarly in 2010, 53.8 percent of non-citizens reported voting for the Democratic House candidate while 30.7 percent indicated that they voted for the Republican," the study said.

The results affirmed the contention of many, including the Washington watchdog, Judicial Watch, that a "large number of non-citizens cast ballots in U.S. elections, and it's possible that the illegal votes were responsible for President Obama's 2008 victory."

Using data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Studies, the large-scale academic survey found "in fact, enough ineligible voters cast ballots in 2008 to conceivably account for Democratic victories in a few close elections," Judicial Watch said in a report on the study.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the study confirms Judicial Watch's "working theory that foreign nationals illegally vote in federal elections in large numbers and have allowed Democrats, including this president, to steal elections."

"This is why the left does not want voter ID, loves same-day registration, by mail voting, etc., and craves amnesty and open borders," Fitton said. "It is not about the Hispanic vote – it is about the illegal alien vote (and the legal alien vote), it is about stealing elections. Makes all the talk about targeting, messaging, issues, candidates and policy seem quaint."

Judicial Watch noted the study supports its work on vote accountability, which includes the Election Integrity Project, described as a "widespread legal campaign to clean up voter registration rolls and support election integrity measures across the country."

Judicial Watch said its efforts have proved voter rolls in Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Florida, California and Colorado contained ineligible voters.

The study also found 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."

The political science professors pointed out that Sen. Al Franken, the comedian who was elected to the Senate from Minnesota, won by only 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," the authors said.

Judicial Watch noted most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote, but the study showed "enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races."

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