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Let's make this clear: Non citizens are not voting [1]

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Date: 2025-07-29

The lie that’s being used to purge voters and make it more difficult for everyone to vote is that non citizens are voting and are impacting our elections.

Of course, if that were true, it would be bad.

But is it happening?

Hardly at all. And by hardly at all, we mean, as in Texas, they found 33 potential non citizen voters out of 11.3 million voters. What is that as a percentage? 0.00000292% (I had to count those zeroes several times). And even that may be too high, because they didn’t bother to prosecute anyone, and Texas would surely make an example if they could.

Let’s get into cases. Note the starting source is an article by Yunsior Rivas at Democracy Docket, although I will supplement with more information if I can.

Red states, purple states.

💜 MICHIGAN

From Democracy Docket

In April, the Michigan Department of State concluded a months-long review that compared more than 7.9 million DMV records with the state’s voter rolls. It found that 15 people who appeared to be noncitizens had voted in the 2024 general election, out of more than 5.7 million ballots cast. ✂️ 13 cases were referred to Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), but no charges against any of those have been publicly announced. Nessel has been vocal about her opposition to sweeping proof-of-citizenship laws.

What is 15 out of 5.7 million? 0.0002632%

The crazies have also been making noises about dead people voting. Well, that has been researched as well:

x Tuesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit regarding the state's voter rolls and affirmed that Michigan is one of the most active states in removing dead voters’ registrations. See more at lnks.gd/2/32Xz8JN — Michigan Department of State (@michigansos.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T13:51:56.285Z

Yeah, but Michigan has Democrats running these tests, right?

So let’s look at some red states.

❤️ IOWA

A comprehensive review of noncitizen voting in Iowa began with alarming headlines when more than 2,000 voters were flagged for potential ineligibility based on outdated DMV records. “We encourage all citizens to vote, we will enforce the law and ensure those votes aren’t cancelled out by the illegal vote of a noncitizen,” Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said after a court ruling allowed the investigation to move forward. After months of verification, only 35 noncitizens were confirmed to have voted in the 2024 general election, out of over 1.6 million ballots cast statewide. The overwhelming majority of flagged voters were either lawful citizens or never voted at all after registration.

35 out of 1.6 million: 0.0021875%.

💙 OREGON

A clerical error in Oregon led to 1,822 people being mistakenly added to the voter rolls through the state’s ‘Motor Voter’ system. The error led to 38 noncitizens voting in 2024, out of more than 2.3 million ballots cast.

It did not change any election results. And 38 out of 2.3 million is only 0.0016522%

❤️ OHIO

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) announced that his office flagged 62 registrations potentially tied to noncitizens based on state and federal data in March. By June, following a review by LaRose’s Public Integrity Division —created especially to investigate election crimes — that number had dropped to 30. The cases were referred to Attorney General Dave Yost (R), who has used isolated cases to amplify the fraud narrative. ✂️ But as of late July, no confirmed cases of noncitizen voting or fraudulent ballots have emerged, and no criminal charges have been announced.

Democracy Docket did not provide the number of voters in the 2024 federal election in Ohio, but I looked at Wikipedia. tRump got 3,180,116 votes and Harris got 2,533,699 votes. I’m ignoring third parties and saying the total is 5,713,815. The 30 cases would be 0.000525%.

But, as no criminal charges have been announced, maybe even that number should be smaller.

❤️ ALASKA

In one of the most unusual noncitizen voting investigations, prosecutors in Whittier, Alaska filed felony charges against 11 residents, all born in American Samoa. The investigation began after an anonymous tip to the state Elections Division prompted scrutiny of voting records in the town. American Samoans are U.S. nationals, not citizens — a rarely understood distinction that many, including public officials, failed to explain. “All evidence indicates she believed she was eligible to vote in local elections when she registered,” the ACLU of Alaska stated in support of one of the defendants. “Local election officials encouraged her to check the box labeled U.S. citizen when she registered, given the fact that there was no option for U.S. national.”

I’d like to know why American Samoans are not citizens (well, I know, it’s racism) but this was unintentional. AK has had only one case of a noncitizen in the last decade.

❤️ WYOMING

As Democracy Docket previously reported, an investigation by Laramie County, Wyoming, the state’s largest county, found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 election. The review was launched after 13 voters were flagged for possible citizenship issues. After working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), investigators determined that every single one of them was eligible to vote.

Even ICE couldn’t fabricate something?!? And anyway, this is 0%.!!!

❤️ TEXAS

Texas officials have been actively looking for any possible noncitizens on the rolls, spurred by political pressure to “secure” elections. In June, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson (R) announced that her office identified 33 “potential noncitizens” who voted in the 2024 election and referred their names to Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). Roughly 11.3 million Texans voted in 2024. ✂️ While the investigation continues, as of late July, no charges have been filed, and officials have offered no public evidence that any of the 33 voters knowingly violated the law.

Same number as in the intro: 0.00000292%.

Just like noncitizens are not eating pets or committing crimes at higher rates, noncitizens are not voting. Just wanted to make this clear, with some numbers, so that people can look it up when they need to.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you remember this when it comes up.

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