Illegal Immigrants Registered to Vote?

A report by David Simcox says that an estimated 1.8 million to 2.7 million noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. may be illegally registered to vote, which could make a big impact on the upcoming presidential and congressional elections.

Simcox, the former head of a think tank that favors less immigration, used population estimates from the Census Bureau and Texas county registration data to discover that Dallas, Harris, Starr and Presidio counties, as well as others, had higher numbers of registered voters than those who are eligible. This may indicate noncitizens are registered to vote.

However, county elections administrators reject the conclusions of the report, saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas.

Steve Raborn, elections administrator for Tarrant County, said a two-year investigation by his office of questionable voter registrations in 2004 and 2005 found only three noncitizens on the county voter rolls, and they were later removed.

Yet, Raborn said he couldn't completely discount Mr. Simcox's findings. "We probably have some noncitizens on the rolls, just like we probably have some dead people or some felons on the rolls, but it's not a big problem," Mr. Raborn said. "If they're illegal aliens, they're going to stay under the radar."