Poll Reveals Millions of Illegals are Registered to Vote

Just the fact that Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election is remarkable in itself. The fact the the Electoral College vote was not close makes it even more so. It would have been helpful for him to have won the popular vote as well, although that total does not determine the winner. Yet it remains a point of contention that his opponents are unlike to let die.

President Trump also created controversy when he claimed that the popular vote should have been much closer, and would have been had there not been the alleged participation of millions of illegal migrants, people who had no right to vote, in the election. News now supports his allegations.

A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.

The National Hispanic Survey provides additional evidence for use by anti-voter fraud conservatives and bolsters an analysis by professors at Old Dominion University who say non-citizens registered and voted in potentially large numbers.

This is part of the basis for President Trump’s decision to have Vice-President Pence direct an investigation into voter fraud.

President Trump has announced he will appoint a task force on voter fraud headed by Vice President Mike Pence. He says he wants the investigation to focus on inaccurate voter registration rolls, which are maintained by the states and the District of Columbia.

The survey in question is four years old, yet the results are telling.

The little-noticed Hispanic survey was conducted in June 2013 by McLaughlin and Associates to gauge the opinions of U.S. resident Latinos on a wide range of issues.

Inside the poll is a page devoted to voter profiles. Of the randomly selected sample of 800 Hispanics, 56 percent, or 448, said they were non-citizens, and of those, 13 percent said they were registered to vote. The 448 would presumedly be a mix of illegal immigrants and noncitizens who are in the U.S. legally, such as visa holders or permanent residents.

As the analysis continues, there is indication that the potential size of this population of illegal voters could change the results of elections.

But James Agresti, who directs the research nonprofit “Just Facts,” applied the 13 percent figure to 2013 U.S. Census numbers for non-citizen Hispanic adults. In 2013, the Census reported that 11.8 million non-citizen Hispanic adults lived here, which would amount to 1.5 million illegally registered Latinos.

Accounting for the margin of error based on the sample size of non-citizens, Mr. Agresti calculated that the number of illegally registered Hispanics could range from 1.0 million to 2.1 million.

“Contrary to the claims of many media outlets and so-called fact-checkers, this nationally representative scientific poll confirms that a sizable number of non-citizens in the U.S. are registered to vote,” Mr. Agresti said.

And here is the implication of all of this:

As the nation’s immigrant population, both legal and illegal, grows, the question of non-citizens voting illegally has caught the attention of more grass-roots conservative groups. Aliens tend to vote Democratic and have the ability to sway a close election.

The nation must be able to trust that the results of an election have integrity for our system of government to work. There will always be some attempts at voter fraud, but it is the responsibility of government officials to keep that level so low that there is no chance that such fraud could change the results.

Those officials may not have always been successful, and that fact demands a thorough investigation and a cleansing of the voter roles of any who are not legally entitled to vote.

Source: Washington Times