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The Nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation Research, or CEIR, tracked data from all 50 states and found that allegations about non-citizens voting, quote, arise from misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, or outright fabrications about complex voter data.
CEIR Executive Director David Becker.
It is extremely rare that non-citizens get registered, and then it is infinitesimally rare that they vote.
In Iowa, an exhaustive search there found 35 non-citizen votes in 2024 out of the state's 1.67 million cast.
Still, just last week, President Trump again falsely described the problem as widespread, as he argued to, quote, nationalize the country's election systems.
Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.
The Nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation Research, or CEIR, tracked data from all 50 states and found that allegations about non-citizens voting, quote, arise from misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, or outright fabrications about complex voter data.
CEIR Executive Director David Becker.
In Iowa, for instance, an exhaustive search there found 35 non-citizen votes in 2024 out of the state's 1.67 million cast.
Still, just last week, President Trump again falsely described the problem as widespread —
as he argued to, quote, nationalize the country's election systems.
Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.
The Justice Department says it's sending election observers to six counties in California and New Jersey to, quote, ensure transparency, balanced security and compliance with federal law, unquote.
But in a letter to the DOJ, Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff raised concerns about the department picking counties in Democratic-led states at the request of Republican Party officials.
Former Justice Department attorney David Becker says he's concerned about how Trump administration officials may talk about this monitoring effort after Election Day.
California says it's sending its own monitors to observe the Justice Department's monitors.