Our
data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES).
Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide
sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen
respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to
match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually
voted.
How many non-citizens
participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the
2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore,
some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations
from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of
non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.
(Note that they keep using the term, “non-citizen,”
without specifying whether they mean immigrants who have entered the country
illegally or immigrants who are in the process of legally becoming citizens —
lawful permanent residents, a.k.a. “green card” holders, or both. It’s a crime
either way, but it’s easier to imagine a lawful permanent resident mistakenly
thinking they have already earned the right to vote.) .....To Read More......
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