Washington Post: Obama Won 80% of Non-Citizen Votes in 2008

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Voter fraud still totally not an issue.

How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

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.

So non-citizen votes gave us both Al Franken and ObamaCare. I’m not sure which of these is worse. But of course we don’t need to secure the integrity of our voting process, say Democrats. Any attempt at Voter ID is racist, say the main beneficiaries of voter fraud.

And then eventually we’ll just have to let anyone who wants to vote, even if they’re illegal aliens, just as we had to at the border. And then we’ll have to give the disadvantaged multiple votes.

That’s what the voter fraud party wants.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    I’ve been assured that non-citizens can’t vote. Don’t tell me someone’s fibbing…

    • quillerm

      According to recent Government law enforcement and INS studies have found that approximately 80% of the 30 Million illegals in the US have false identification. All it takes to Vote in most States is a ID (false or valid), how can’t their be Voter ID is the question?

  • Slātlantican

    This shows that enacting voter ID laws is a distraction. If people can vote without citizenship, they can get drivers licenses without citizenship.

    If Republicans are seriously concerned with ensuring the integrity of our elections, they should de-emphasize the fight on voter ID on Election Day and focus on eliminating voter registration fraud. This problem stems from the Motor Voter Law, which put voter registration into the hands of anyone with time on their hands.

    • johninohio1

      You need an ID to register, and it’s just as ‘racist’ to demand it for registration as it is for voting. You’re just moving the fight to a different ballpark.

      • Slātlantican

        Not so.

        I’ve been registered to vote in two states, neither of which required ID. (One of the did require me to sign an affidavit “swearing” the information on the form was accurate.)

        Things have gotten far worse since the passage of Motor Voter under Clinton. Instead of registration being done npby trained civil servants, almost anyone can work as a registrar. In the state I just moved from, activist groups routinely paid otherwise-unemployed people to register voters, and paid them based upon the number of applications turned in. How motivated do you think those “registrars” were to assure citizenship and other niceties like accurate address?

        Setting up the polling place as the frontlines of this battle is a losing proposition. The election official is not going to be able to identify who is registered illegally. Even if he could, he’s under pressure—many voting places have long lines of irritable people. Besides, this isn’t where voter fraud occurs

        • quillerm

          Democrats were already caught corrupting Voter machines in Chicago, the Republican Senate Candidate tried to cast a Vote for himself and found that the device switched his vote to his democrat opponent. How could such a thing happen without collusion between Poll monitor staff and technicians? It takes significant technical expertise and access to corrupt Voter machines. The devices were suppose to be tested before put in the Polls. How did democrats get it in the Polling station? How many thousands of Votes were cast on the device before this criminal act was discovered?

          • Slātlantican

            Exactly. And voter ID laws will do nothing to combat this type of fraud, which is why Republican efforts—and the efforts of anyone who believes in assuring the integrity of elections—should be focused elsewhere.

            Ask Dino Rossi or Norm Coleman if they believe laws mandating photo ID at the polls would’ve saved their elections.

          • Bamaguje

            Voter ID is just one of the mechanisms to check electoral fraud… not the final panacea.

          • Slātlantican

            Resources–human, time, money, and political capital–are limited. Republicans are fighting this battle over voter ID and using up huge quantities of resources to fight a problem that is incredibly minuscule, and likely will not affect any election outcomes. Democrats are no longer sending people around to polling places to vote on behalf of dead people like they did 50 years ago in Chicago.

            The real battle against voter fraud is not with these one person here, one person there situations. It involves ballot boxes and fraudulent registration. That’s where resources need to be allocated.

    • quillerm

      Democrats have bypassed the registration requirement in Colorado via write in ballots. Voters can print off as many ballots as they want and drop them off at the Polls. The only requirement is that the ballot be signed by either the Voter or a witness.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    No one can accuse the Democrats of not believing in democracy — democracy meaning in essence “mob rule,” the rule of the majority, and if the majority happens to be made up of illegal aliens “yearning for democracy,” there you have it. The Democrats are their champions.

    • quillerm

      The only reason we have individual rights and freedoms is our democracy. If our election system is compromised and the people lose faith in it’s validity, our democracy ceases to exist.

    • Bamaguje

      Democrat democracy – dem-all-crazy.

    • Orson OLSON

      The Greeks has in insult for mob rule – “Idiotes.” It remains the same today.

  • Original Prankster

    I guess I didn’t pay attention in HS civics class – isn’t citizenship a requirement for being able to vote?

    • Bamaguje

      Apparently not.
      Now you understand why Obama and the left are intent on amnesty for illegal aliens… more illegal Democrat voters.
      Democrats don’t have to wait till the illegals become citizens.

  • SoCalMike

    Dems are the party of voter fraud and children of Marx.
    Total Marxoids born, bread and brainwashed on Marx, their precious prophet.
    Once you grasp that people are willing to lie, cheat and steal, the dynamic changes.
    Changes completely.
    When you stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and start opposing them and calling them out on their lies and misstatements or at least exposing them, you’re taking baby steps in the right direction.
    The Left is poison.
    Mock them, Smear them. Freeze them and demonize them.
    It’s not enough to factually refute them.

  • 1970greenie

    How is it that we have voter ID in South Dakota?

    • Larry Larkin

      So low a proportion of brain dead voters that even the Dems realise it would be a bit obvious if they started stealing elections there through voter fraud?

    • johninohio1

      We have it in Ohio, too. Or at least in my neck of the woods. I guess it’s an issue only in places where it’s being proposed because they never had it before.

    • pupsncats

      In loony left controlled Washington State, not only does one not have to prove who they are to vote, but all elections are mail only. You will never know if your mailed ballot reached the elections office and will never know if they did receive it, that it was counted. Of course they claim you can call the elections office to verify they received it but they cannot prove to anyone they did. You don’t get a receipt and you don’t receive anything to validate your ballot was counted.

      • quillerm

        Canada and the Nations of Europe have all used Voter ID to Certify their elections as Valid. They have learned how precious freedom, liberty and individual rights are to a democracy. Washington State’s liberal fanatics are creating a situation where Voter Fraud is rampant, and a threat to our democracy

  • semus

    And the establishment Republicans don’t seem to mind a bit.

    • Erudite Mavin

      No, it is the Libertarians who don’t mind a bit.
      Libertarian Rand Paul is against voter ID

    • Bamaguje

      Establishment Republicans a.k.a. RINOs, never want to offend their Democrat buddies.
      But Democrats don’t hesitate to ridicule Republicans.

  • SoCalMike

    I love listening to Dems blow that there’s no proof of voter fraud.
    They heard it on MSLSD so it must be true.

    • info warrior

      It’s all part of the MSM’s attempt to portray Obama as somehow foreign.

  • info warrior

    If non-citizens voted it was a mistake. Their registration was fraudulent. I know for a fact that non-citizens voting is a felony. So if they were identified, why were they not arrested?

  • Orson OLSON

    In Colorado, with “mail in” voting and same day “registration” counting equally, what’s the point of even voting when my vote won’t count? It’s a joke!

  • Guest

    There is no voter fraud – And I have never Jaywalked, violated any law, driven too fast, smoked pot…..