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

By Joseph Lawler
Published October 25, 2014 8:03pm ET
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Study: Illegally voting non-citizens could tip close races in the U.S.
In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) | Eric Gay

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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