RETRACTION: The following post was based on an erroneous news report from KING 5 television. Arcen Cetin is in fact a United States citizen.
Arcen Cetin, the Turkish 20-year-old who is accused of murdering five strangers at a mall in Washington state last weekend, is not a U.S. citizen. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been voting in U.S. elections. KING 5, a Seattle television station, has the story:
Meanwhile—despite the incessant drumbeat telling us there has never in the history of the Republic been a case of voter fraud—research published in Electoral Studies has found that non-citizens vote in significant enough numbers to actually sway elections. Yet liberal groups oppose states requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Their argument is that it’s better to err on the side of enfranchising more people. These laws “[exclude] legitimate voters who do not have documentary proof of citizenship,” they say. But at what cost?
Hillary Clinton, for her part, recently suggested that there is a “right” to immigrate to the United States—a remarkably radical position that no other U.S. president has ever held. (And perhaps needless to say, no other country in the world—save, perhaps, Angela Merkel’s Germany—takes the view that the world has a “right” to immigrate to their shores.) Do Clinton and her allies also believe foreigners have a “right” to vote in U.S. elections?
