JohnStOnge wrote:I think that, ultimately, the Democrats do want to have a bunch of immigrants that would be expected to vote Democrat become legal voting citizens. But I also think fraudulent voting favors them on balance, they know that it favors them on balance, and they therefore resist any effort to curtail it while encouraging measures that will make it more likely.
As written it many times but it's obvious. All you have to do is note that Democrats consistently favor measures that will make fraudulent voting easier and consistently oppose measures that will make it more difficult while the opposite is the case for Republicans. It's pretty easy to tell which side fraudulent voting favors on balance from the behavior of the two parties.
And opposing voter ID laws is an example of that. There is absolutely no valid reason for doing it.
What I'd personally like to see at some point is using biometrics. Don't require a card. Just take some biometric data and scan each prospective voter when they show up to vote. Also make it a national database so that they can't vote in different places.
And I can guarantee you that if we start talking about doing something like that Democrats are going to oppose it and Republicans are going to favor it.
Yep. Study done by 2 ODU professors estimates about 14% of 'non citizens" are registered to vote, and 6.4% voted in 2008, and 2.2% in 2010. Note this includes both illegal immigrants and legal immigrants, non citizens who are legal permanent residents, who by law still aren't allowed to vote in federal elections,
So its only natural that the donks would want more non citizens in the country, legal or illegal, as ultimately a small percentage of them will end up voting, and most will vote donk (Obama got an estimated 80% of this non citizen illegal vote in 08').
US Census 2010 had the foreign born non naturalized (non citizen) population in the U.S. at 22.48 million. 6.4% of that is about 1.44 million. 131.3 million voted in 2008. So according to the study about 1.1% would have been illegal votes from non citizens.
"....Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. 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 in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 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....."
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