(Daily Wire) A new study suggests that as many as 2.7 million non-citizens could vote in the 2024 election, leading some to voice concerns about coming election results potentially not reflecting the will of Americans citizens, who are the only ones permitted to vote in federal elections.
Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, “found that about 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote,” an overview of the study states.
“The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022,” it says. “Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.”
A 2014 study found that 81% of non-citizens who cast votes in 2008 did so for Democrats.
Election fraud more broadly has become a concern since the U.S. election system was upended in 2020. In that election, an unprecedented 70% of all votes cast were done by mail or early. Without basic exit polling for a vast majority of the vote, some have questioned how potential fraud could be detected in the first place, and subsequently looked into.
James Agresti, the author of the Just Facts study, told The Washington Stand that it is relatively easy for non-citizens to register to vote.
“In no state in the nation are they required to provide proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote,” Agresti said. “And if you look at the federal voter registration form, it says you can submit all different forms of ID to register. That could be a Social Security number, it could be a driver’s license number, or it could just be a utility bill. I mean, these are things that anyone can get by living here. They do not prove you’re a U.S. citizen.”
“And more than that, a lot of non-citizens have faked Social Security numbers, especially illegal immigrants,” he added. “That’s what they do to work.”
Agresti noted a recent estimate by the Social Security Administration that “tallied 2.5 million non-citizens who had Social Security numbers gained by using fake birth certificates or stealing those numbers from somebody else,” he said.
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative manager Hans von Spakovsky cited the Just Facts study testifying before Congress on May 16.
