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   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 01:32:11 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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   “Across a sample of 23.5 million votes cast in 42 jurisdictions during the 2016 election, election officials identified 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting that were referred for further investigation, comprising 0.0001% of the total votes cast, according to a 2017 Brennan Center study. When Georgia audited its voter rolls in 2022, election officials were unable to identify a single instance of a noncitizen casting a ballot during an election.”

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 01:32:12 JST wet forest moon folklorist

     A major talking point in the pro Trump blabosphere is that “illegal immigrants” are voting illegally en masse, however

     “A comprehensive audit of Georgia's voter rolls -- which include 8.2 million registered voters -- uncovered 20 noncitizens who registered to vote, including nine instances when noncitizens actually cast a ballot. A similar audit of Iowa's 2.3 million voters revealed 87 instances where individuals cast ballots and later self-reported as noncitizens.”

     https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/election-fact-check-noncitizens-vote-instances-vanishingly-rare/story?id=115025674

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.