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With more than ten million « new arrivals » in the country under Joe Biden’s watch, increasing numbers of people have been expressing concerns over how many of them might wind up trying to vote in the upcoming elections. Even worse, how many of them might get away with it? This is a threat that has been brought up by Donald Trump recently, to the great alarm of his detractors in the legacy media. But he was hardly the first to raise this specter. Rushing to the rescue this weekend is the Associated Press. They want to assure everyone that Donald Trump is just engaging in conspiracy theories again. Noncitizen voting simply doesn’t happen, or at least not enough that it should bother you. Our voting system is safe and secure. You know… just like our border.
The theory involves two complicated subjects, immigration and voting, but it’s actually very simple. There isn’t any indication that noncitizens vote in significant numbers in federal elections or that they will in the future. It’s already a crime for them to do so. And we know it’s not a danger because various states have examined their rolls and found very few noncitizen voters.
To be clear, there have been cases of noncitizens casting ballots, but they are extremely rare. Those who have looked into these cases say they often involve legal immigrants who mistakenly believe they have the right to vote.
Johnson tried to address this, saying that “we cannot wait for widespread fraud to occur.” But one prior crackdown on purported noncitizen voting also risked striking thousands of actual citizens from the voting rolls.
