Richard Hasen

It used to be that in midterm elections, it was Republicans who turned out more because they were the more affluent, college-educated white people.

Now, a lot of those people have moved over to the Democratic Party.

And so it is not at all clear that if the SAVE Act passed or if Donald Trump were able to do some of these new restrictions by executive order, that it would actually inure to the benefit of the Republican Party.

I think more likely the thinking of those who've actually thought it through

and who've noticed this demographic change, is that this would be part and parcel of this kind of long-term push to claim that there's massive fraud in elections to overturn the results of democratically conducted elections.

This might be the reason, too, why the Justice Department has sued in, I believe it's 24 states now, to try to collect unredacted voter registration information to create some kind of

massive database, which they could then use as a pretext to claim that there's a lot of fraud in how American elections are conducted.

So fraud is extremely rare.

Let's just take the case of non-citizen voting.

In 2016, Donald Trump claimed that there were 3 million non-citizens who voted in the 2016 election.

That was coincidentally the amount by which Hillary Clinton beat him in the popular vote.

There were investigations all over the country looking for how many non-citizens actually voted in the election.

There weren't 3 million.

or 300,000 or 30,000 or 3,000 or 300.

There were about 30 cases of possible non-citizen voting in the United States, a tiny, tiny percentage.

And it's unsurprising about that because if you're a non-citizen and you vote, you're committing a felony.

You could be deported.

You could face criminal penalties.

You'd have to have so many people voting in a presidential election to sway it that you

You know, you'd have this conspiracy of millions of people voting who are ineligible and no one would know about it.