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Dick Durbin: “Between the years 1999 and 2023, in that 24 year period of…”

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Durbin: Trump Wants To Pass The SAVE America Act Because He's Worried About The Outcome Of Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 02:43

If you try to vote and you're not legally an American citizen, how often does it happen? Well, we're talking about 50 million registrations a year. So Between the years 1999 and 2023, in that 24 year period of time, how many people who were not American citizens were actually caught trying to vote in America? ... 77 people. 50 million a year, incidentally, being registered, would you guess? 7 million. That justifies changing the law for everybody in America? No, it's not 7 million. (02:43–03:22)

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Asserts that 77 non-citizens were caught trying to vote in the U.S. from 1999 to 2023.

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