Report brutally shatters Trump’s bogus illegal voting claims

23 October 2024

Former President Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans have been falsely claiming that illegal immigrants have been voting in huge numbers with the blessing of Democrats. But in fact, election laws are quite clear about who can and cannot legally vote in the United States.

According to USA.gov, "Non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, cannot vote in federal, state, and most local elections."

In an article published on October 23, The New Republic's Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling emphasizes that there is no validity to Trump's claim of widespread voting by illegal immigrants. And Houghtaling points to Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reporting that, she stresses, exposes Trump's "election interference fearmongering" as a "nothingburger."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, recently conducted an audit of 8.2 million registered voters in his state. And the conservative non-MAGA Republican found that out of 8.2 million, only 20 non-citizens were registered to vote.

According to AJC's Mark Niesse, Georgia election officials "canceled their voter registrations and reported them to district attorneys for potential prosecution."

Trump has been claiming that voting by illegal immigrants is widespread enough to sway election results. But Raffensperger found only 20 examples out of 8.2. million.

Trump has been a persistent critic of Raffensperger, falsely claiming that the conservative Georgia secretary of state and two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp have been soft on voter fraud.

But Raffensperger, in an official statement, said, "We are committed to ensuring that only U.S. citizens can vote in our elections through rigorous citizenship verification at the front end, and in maintaining the cleanest voter rolls in the nation through continuous list maintenance."

Houghtaling explains, "As part of his election conspiracy, Trump has campaigned on the notion that non-citizen voters are upending the presidential election results and, by extension, American democracy in favor of the Democratic Party. But his focus on the issue belies the fact that it is, of course, already illegal and impossible for non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections — including in Georgia, where the individuals who fell through the cracks in the system account for just 0.00024390243902439 percent of the state's voting population."

Read The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's full report at this link (subscription required) and The New Republic's analysis here.

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