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Peter Welch: “Study after study has also shown that the rate of noncitizen…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Peter Welch's Denouncement of Trump's Executive Order on Election Integrity

Published | Video Starts at 02:57

So this is not a question of of whether there's some backdoor effort on the part of one party to allow noncitizens to vote. Can't be done. Illegal. Now this executive order would not change that. Study after study has also shown that the rate of noncitizen voting is incredibly small. Roughly .0001% according to a reliable estimate. And obviously that error is so small that it's hard to measure and would not have any material impact on our elections. (02:57–03:15)

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Asserts that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, at approximately .0001%.

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