With massive leftist voter registration efforts in play, election integrity advocates warn of many more noncitizens on voter rolls.
The leftist election integrity deniers at the Brennan Center for Justice will tell you that “noncitizens are not voting in federal or state elections.” They are wrong. So are the like-minded leftists at Time Magazine, who in 2017 arrogantly and falsely claimed, “Donald Trump is Wrong — Noncitzens Don’t Vote.”
Some do. They’re not allowed to vote in federal elections. It’s a felony. But they have — in red states, blue states, and purple states. With the flood of illegal immigrants that has poured into the United States on the Biden-Harris administration’s watch, there are more foreign nationals showing up on the nation’s voter rolls. That means there will be more opportunities for noncitizens to slip through the Maginot Line of U.S. election security.
It’s happening enough that the left’s messaging has been, let’s just say, nuanced of late.
“We have seen the change of rhetoric from the left. From, ‘There are no cases’ to, ‘It’s so rare,’” Wisconsin state Sen. Dan Knodl, who has raised red flags about potentially thousands of noncitizens on the Badger State’s voter rolls, recently told me. “The prosecutions have proven that it’s certainly not nonexistent.”
As Knodl and others note, however, the real rarity is law enforcement investigation and prosecution of voter fraud allegations, particularly incidents of foreign nationals casting ballots. So a true gauge of the problem is anything but definitive, despite what the usual suspects at the Associated Press and other members of the accomplice media feverishly insist.
Last week, Angelica Maria Francisco, 42, of Russellville, Ala. was charged in U.S. District Court on false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, among a host of other fraud charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama. She has filed a plea agreement indicating that she will plead guilty to all of the charges, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona noted in a press release.
Francisco, according to the charges, assumed the identity of a U.S. citizen in 2011, using the false identity to obtain a U.S. passport.
“She subsequently used the United States passport to travel to and from her native country of Guatemala in 2012, 2015, and 2018,” the press release states. “Using the same false identity, Francisco also registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections.”
In noting the charges, the Alabama Political Reporter dutifully declared that “research shows noncitizen voting is rare and overstated.”