Illegals Voting: It’s Real and It Must Be Stopped
The mainstream media insists that illegal immigrants never vote in U.S. elections, but Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told lawmakers last week at a hearing on election fraud that they, in fact, do. “We know that aliens are registering and actually voting, although we do not know the extent of the problem since the vast majority of states are not verifying the citizenship of registered voters,” he testified.
We should provide both access and security in the election process. We want to ensure that every eligible citizen is able to vote and that those votes are not diluted, voided, or stolen due to unlawful registration and voting by aliens who have no right to participate in our political and election process and by the unfair and unjust inclusion of aliens in the apportionment of the House of Representatives, as well as the drawing of boundary lines for political districts at the federal, state and local level. Individual aliens and foreign entities and governments should also not be able to interfere in recall elections and ballot-issue referenda. That is essential in convincing the public that they can and should turn out to exercise the franchise and actively and meaningfully participate in the governance of our nation.
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