Tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote and have voted, House members and testifying experts asserted Tuesday.
A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday, titled “The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: Noncitizen Voting,” that examined noncitizen voting and the nation’s porous border.
The hearing comes as House Republicans push to include safeguards to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote as part of a continuing resolution to keep funding the government.
Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy, R-Texas, referred to a 2014 study by Old Dominion University and George Mason University. It estimated that 6.4% of noncitizens—or 1.2 million at the time—illegally voted in the 2008 election. That number might have tipped a U.S. Senate race in Minnesota that year, as well as the presidential vote in North Carolina.
“It would only take a few thousand noncitizens voting—much less than the 1.2 million estimated—to impact the outcome of razor thin elections,” Roy said.