A new study suggests that as many as 2.7 million non-citizens could vote in the 2024 election, leading some to voice concerns about coming election results potentially not reflecting the will of Americans citizens, who are the only ones permitted to vote in federal elections.

Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, “found that about 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote,” an overview of the study states.

“The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022,” it says. “Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.”

A 2014 study found that 81% of non-citizens who cast votes in 2008 did so for Democrats.

Election fraud more broadly has become a concern since the U.S. election system was upended in 2020. In that election, an unprecedented 70% of all votes cast were done by mail or early. Without basic exit polling for a vast majority of the vote, some have questioned how potential fraud could be detected in the first place, and subsequently looked into.

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James Agresti, the author of the Just Facts study, told The Washington Stand that it is relatively easy for non-citizens to register to vote.

“In no state in the nation are they required to provide proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote,” Agresti said. “And if you look at the federal voter registration form, it says you can submit all different forms of ID to register. That could be a Social Security number, it could be a driver’s license number, or it could just be a utility bill. I mean, these are things that anyone can get by living here. They do not prove you’re a U.S. citizen.”

“And more than that, a lot of non-citizens have faked Social Security numbers, especially illegal immigrants,” he added. “That’s what they do to work.”

Agresti noted a recent estimate by the Social Security Administration that “tallied 2.5 million non-citizens who had Social Security numbers gained by using fake birth certificates or stealing those numbers from somebody else,” he said.

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative manager Hans von Spakovsky cited the Just Facts study testifying before Congress on May 16.

“This new study not only affirms the conclusions of the 2014 report, but, based on an analysis of the more recent data, estimates that 10 to 27% of all aliens currently in the U.S. are registered to vote and that 5 to 13% of them will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections,” he said.

Kerri Toloczko, the executive director of the Election Integrity Network, suggested that the percentage of non-citizens voting today is likely even higher than the last time the rate was calculated.

“A 2014 academic journal found that 6.4% of noncitizens voted in 2008,” Toloczko said. “There are about 24 million non-citizens in the U.S. right now. If they voted only at the same rate of 6.4% this year as they did in 2008, they would account for 1.5 million votes.”

“Based on the increased noncitizen activity at state DMVs, and the work of left-wing voter registration activists, this 6.4% could be much higher than it was in 2008,” she added. “We could be looking at over two million unlawful noncitizen votes.”

The estimates cited in the 2014 paper and the Just Facts study have been criticized by a Washington Post fact-checker and think tanks like the Cato Institute. The latter, for example, cites criticism that suggests the number of non-citizens voting in U.S. elections is “zero.”

“Zero, of course, functions here as a rounding number and not as an assertion that literally no noncitizens voted in 2008. It signifies simply that alternative rounding numbers, such as 5 or 3 or 1 percent, would likely be less accurate,” the Cato article says.

Illegal immigration has become a dominating issue in the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump has promised to close the porous border and deport illegals. The former president has criticized the Biden-Harris administration for permitting potentially dangerous foreigners to enter the U.S. completely unvetted, leaving Americans vulnerable. He’s also argued that the steady flow of millions of illegals is hurting the American worker.

His Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has long been soft on illegal immigration, previously stating that it should not be a crime to enter the U.S. illegally. She’s also advocated perks for illegals, such as sex-change operations for illegal inmates. Since she became the Democrats’ nominee, however, Harris staffers have claimed Harris is for strong border security. Her campaign has even used images of Trump’s border wall in a campaign video suggesting the Veep is tough at the border.

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Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, vowed to continue his campaign following a salacious CNN report unveiling comments he made on a pornography site’s message board.

Robinsons referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and admitted to watching transgender pornography on internet message boards over a decade ago, according to CNN. Under the username “minisoldr,” Robinson reportedly posted messages to the pornography site Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012.

Robinson denied the report in a video posted to his social media shortly before the story was published. The video statement followed Robinson canceling campaign events ahead of the story’s release.

“Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before. Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious trap, tabloid trash,” Robinson said.

I wanted to take a minute to address the latest outrageous lies coming from my opponent’s dishonest campaign: #ncgov #ncpol pic.twitter.com/RtteVUiozr

— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 19, 2024

Robinson said the CNN report was based on false claims trafficked by his Democratic opponent in the gubernatorial race, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.

CNN presented Robinson with evidence connecting the account on Nude Africa to the Republican candidate. That evidence included biographical details shared by the account that correspond with Robinson’s life as well as information on the account that identified it as belonging to Robinson, including a profile picture of him and his name.

“I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies,” Robinson responded.

The posts by the Nude Africa account identified by CNN covered Martin Luther King, Jr., slavery, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and other topics.

One comment made after the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., in August 2011 said: “Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!.”

“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” another said.

An October 2010 post in a forum discussing black Republicans said “I’m a black NAZI!” Another comment posted later that month by the account said of slavery: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”

In posts discussing the Taliban, the account called Muslims “little rag-headed bastards” and said that “if Muslims took over liberals would be the 1st ones to be beheaded!”