Election

Reason - The Fear that millions of newly arrived illegal immigrants are swaying federal elections by voting unlawfully has become a recurring theme in debates over immigration. The idea has so much buy-in that earlier this year, House lawmakers passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which calls for states to "take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote" in federal elections. Sen. Thom Tillis (R–N.C.), who co-sponsored the Senate version of the SAVE Act, implied that it was a timely—and urgent—attempt to ensure election integrity...

The Supreme Court even weighed in on the subject in August. In a 5–4 decision, it allowed Arizona to require proof of citizenship for people registering to vote using a state form (but rejected a request to impose the same restriction on people using a federal form). It's been illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections for a century. But beyond that, there's little evidence to suggest that many noncitizens are voting in federal elections, let alone in large enough numbers to sway those races.