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Study: Illegally voting non-citizens could tip close races in the U.S.

By Joseph Lawler
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Study: Illegally voting non-citizens could tip close races in the U.S.

Enough non-citizens illegally vote in U.S. elections to potentially decide close races, a new study suggests.

Old Dominion University political scientists Jesse Richman and David Earnest found, in an article due to be published by the journal Electoral Studies, that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in the 2008 elections and 2.2 percent voted in the 2010 midterms.

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