Stefan Molyneux had an interesting video on this subject. Not so much about the statistics of non-citizens voting, but on the incentives encouraging some politicians to allow it:
I'm not sure how much the federal government can do: A state has a lot of leeway in how it chooses its electors and Congressmen. It's probably more effective for people to demand strict voter ID laws in each state, especially if your state allows citizen referendums.
The article mentions it could be ineffective if your state allows non-citizens to get ID cards, so there should probably be a stamp or icon or something to indicate that you can vote, to reduce the risk of the pool worker being confused.
Normally I'd worry about the privacy risks, but it's so important that I wonder if it's worth taking photos of the state ids associated with each ballot, and also requiring people to write their id number on the ballot. That could be very dangerous if that database gets leaked, though. Are there other alternatives that don't leak information as easily?
I'm not sure how reliable this particular study is, but it's a common enough worry that it's worth making the voting systems more robust just to avoid even the appearance of fraud or tampering.
>I'm not sure how reliable this particular study is, but it's a common enough worry that it's worth making the voting systems more robust just to avoid even the appearance of fraud or tampering.
And thus we witness the power of rhetoric and 'truthiness'. Voter fraud, especially non-citizen voter fraud, is simply not an issue in the US election system, but the fears that it is allow restrictive and disenfranchising legislature to be passed http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/misleading-myth...
I personally am less worried about individual voter fraud, and more worried about fraud at the county level. Perhaps in a small county with fewer safeguards, someone could throw out 10% of the paper ballots. Or the voting machines could have errors that discard votes. It'd be nice to see something that can be end-to-end validated.
In Oregon, we do vote-by-mail. You have to register ahead of time, and you can receive an email when your ballot is sent and when it is received. That seems like enough to protect against people dropping ballots. Invalid ballots are different, but it might be rare if what you're saying is correct. I don't trust any other states, but Oregon at least seems to be run fairly well.
Ultimately, it's up to the citizens of each state to decide how stringent they want their state to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_FOCF3vIQ
I'm not sure how much the federal government can do: A state has a lot of leeway in how it chooses its electors and Congressmen. It's probably more effective for people to demand strict voter ID laws in each state, especially if your state allows citizen referendums.
The article mentions it could be ineffective if your state allows non-citizens to get ID cards, so there should probably be a stamp or icon or something to indicate that you can vote, to reduce the risk of the pool worker being confused.
Normally I'd worry about the privacy risks, but it's so important that I wonder if it's worth taking photos of the state ids associated with each ballot, and also requiring people to write their id number on the ballot. That could be very dangerous if that database gets leaked, though. Are there other alternatives that don't leak information as easily?
I'm not sure how reliable this particular study is, but it's a common enough worry that it's worth making the voting systems more robust just to avoid even the appearance of fraud or tampering.