Trump Keeps Railing Against Non-Citizen Voting. Research Shows It’s Extremely Rare

 https://time.com/7381495/trump-non-citizen-voter-fraud-claims-research-immigration/

President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that non-citizen voting is a widespread and pressing issue in U.S. elections, a claim he has returned to in his recent push for stricter voter ID requirements.

In the past, Trump has baselessly claimed that thousands, if not millions, of undocumented immigrants voted against him in his presidential bids. Following the 2016 election, Trump claimed that between 3 million and 5 million “illegal votes” caused him to lose the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. When he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden four years later, he alleged that Biden won in key states due to tens of thousands of non-citizen votes.

It’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal U.S. elections, however, and research and recent state investigations have shown that noncitizen registration and voting occurs only very rarely, accounting for just a sliver of registered voters and an even more miniscule fraction of ballots cast.

The preliminary results of recent investigations into potential non-citizen voting that have been conducted in multiple states have yielded numbers that are a fraction of a fraction of those Trump has claimed.