At Least 24K Noncitizens Cast Ballots in 2020: Census Bureau
A new report from the Census Bureau says that more than 24,000 noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. The head of the agency believes the real number is higher—much higher. And one particular West Coast state notched a far higher number of noncitizen voters than all the others.
The verbiage in the report suggests the Census Bureau is very sure of its findings. Furthermore, it’s only begun to unearth the true numbers. From the report:
Nearly 160 million voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election. The Census Bureau’s beginning analysis readily determined with high confidence that over 128 million of these voter records represented citizens, and that over 24,000 of these voter records represented noncitizens at the time of the election. Over 32 million voter records remain to be analyzed.
The state with the most illegal voters, according to the report, is California. The Census Bureau says that 4,300 ballots were cast by ineligible voters. Texas ranks second with 2,500 ineligible voters, followed by Florida (1,800), New York (1,700), and Arizona (1,100). Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, and New Jersey each notched 1,000 illegal voters. Every state, however, allowed some illegal voting.
The country of birth most common among illegal voters in America is Mexico, with 3,800 ballots cast by Mexican nationals. Canada came in second, with 950, followed by Jamaica and the Philippines, each notching 900. Several other countries are on this list, including Germany, the U.K., Cuba, Haiti, and Vietnam.
As expected, the reaction has been partisan, with legacy media working to discredit the report entirely.
Trump: I Won!
President Donald Trump, who has never wavered on his belief that he won that election, reiterated the claim when commenting on the report. He said:
The Census Bureau is going to analyze the next 32,000,000 Voters, and this number will explode. I WON THE ELECTION! We must pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce said the final findings will at least double what’s been already discovered.
The Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau just released its analysis showing more than 24,000 noncitizens illegally voted in the 2020 election. Not just registered but literally illegally voted. And that is just the beginning. More than 32 million more voters’ records will be analyzed in the coming weeks, and these records will likely show tens of thousands of additional illegal voters.
Partisan Report?
NPR, however, claims to have spoken to a Census Bureau insider (an anonymous source) who told the left-wing outlet that pro-Trump activists put together the report. NPR reported:
Work on the analysis was not conducted by career civil servants at the Census Bureau, and the team behind it included individuals affiliated with the America First Policy Institute, a think tank started by officials from Trump’s first administration, according to a Census Bureau employee who NPR has agreed not to name because they fear retaliation at work.
The Census Bureau appears to have neither confirmed or denied this.
CNN took the route of diminishing the implications of the report should they be true. CNN:
Even if the report is accurate, 24,000 votes would amount to less than 0.02% of the roughly 160 million ballots cast in 2020. Joe Biden won the national popular vote by more than 7 million votes. The findings fall well below Biden’s victory margins in the most closely contested states.
“Fact Check”
A former CNN reporter named Ed Payne authored a “fact-checking” article for Lead Stories, an outfit that Facebook has used to discredit information and news it didn’t like. In this case, Lead Stories decided the best way to discredit the story is by splitting linguistic hairs. The report does not prove 24,000 noncitizens voted illegally. What it says, according to Payne, is “that more than 24,000 of 128,000,000 registered voters the Census Bureau could analyze matched government immigration and visa records for which no indication of citizenship could be found, but it does not say who they voted for and the total numbers are smaller than the margin of victory.”
The implications of the findings are clear, however Payne wants to frame it. This is just more evidence added to an already solid case that America has election vulnerabilities. Just last month, the governor of New Jersey admitted that nearly 7,000 noncitizens were registered to vote, with 400 of them casting ballots. Heritage Foundation’s election fraud map shows 100 proven cases of noncitizens voting. Then there are third party investigations such as the one conducted by former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, who discovered widespread irregularities during the 2020 elections. The Wisconsin state legislature halted Gableman’s investigation once it became apparent what he was going to find. And those are just three examples of many that could be cited.
There is no good reason for the states not to revert back to proven, secure election practices. That includes going back to paper ballots, requiring some from of ID to make sure voters are citizens, and counting ballots in local precincts and with transparency.
