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发帖数: 6571 | 1 LASHBACK– Washington Post in 2014: Non-Citizen Voting Gave Democrats 60th
Vote for Obamacare
A 2014 report published by the Washington Post documented how non-citizen
foreign nationals voting in U.S. elections “likely gave” Democrats the
critical 60th vote they needed to pass Obamacare.
The report explains that non-citizens who illegally voted in 2008, and who
electorally “tended to favor Democrats”, could have handed the 2008
Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, which gave 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,
” the report writes.
The 2014 Washington Post article titled “Could Non-Citizens Decide The
November Election?” was written by Jesse Richman and David Earnest, two
associate professors of Political Science and International Studies at Old
Dominion University. Their research relied upon data from the Cooperative
Congressional Election Study (CCES).
The professors found “that some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections,
and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful
election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and Congressional
elections.”
As the Washington Post article stated:
How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? […] Our best guess
… 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.
The report came the same week that the North Carolina State Board of
Elections found the names of 145 individuals on voting rolls who were
ineligible to vote because they were illegal immigrants who had been
recipients of Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty (DACA).
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http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/18/flashback-washpost-illegal-immigrant-voting-gave-us-obamacare/ |
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