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Trump Claims Noncitizen Voting Rampant, Data Shows Rare Cases · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump reignited debate over election integrity this week,
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  Speaker 1: alleging that voting by non citizens is widespread across the
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  Speaker 1: United States. In a primetime address, he cited figures suggesting
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  Speaker 1: that more than two hundred fifty thousand non citizens were
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  Speaker 1: registered to vote in states including California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: and Nevada. He argued that the numbers proved systemic fraud
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  Speaker 1: and pressed Congress to pass the Save America Act, which
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  Speaker 1: would require documentary proof of citizenship to register. But independent
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  Speaker 1: investigations tell a different story. Federal reviews, state audits, and
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan studies consistently show that confirmed cases of non citizen
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  Speaker 1: voting are exceedingly rare. A recent US Citizenship and Immigration
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  Speaker 1: Services analysis found that just zero point zero three percent
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  Speaker 1: of records merited further review as possible non citizens. Once vetted,
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  Speaker 1: most of those cases turned out to be clerical errors,
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  Speaker 1: outdated citizenship information, or mismatched data. Election official stress that
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  Speaker 1: while isolated incidents do occur, they are nowhere near the
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  Speaker 1: scale Trump described. The Bipartisan Policy Center concluded there is
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  Speaker 1: no evidence non citizen voting has ever influenced the outcome
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  Speaker 1: of a US election. State officials in Pennsylvania and Nevada
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  Speaker 1: have similarly reported that initial claims of mass non citizen
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  Speaker 1: registration collapse under scrutiny, with only a handful of actual
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  Speaker 1: cases identified. Legal context is clear. Federal law prohibits non
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  Speaker 1: citizens from voting in federal elections, and violations are investigated
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  Speaker 1: and prosecuted. Some local jurisdictions allow non citizens to vote
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  Speaker 1: in municipal contests, such as school board elections, but these
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  Speaker 1: are limited and do not affect federal races. Critics of
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  Speaker 1: Trump's claims argue that inflating numbers risks undermining public trust
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  Speaker 1: and elections, and could lead to restrictive laws that disenfranchise
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  Speaker 1: legitimate voters. Supporters counter that even small numbers of violations
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  Speaker 1: justify stronger safeguards, insisting that proof of citizenship laws are
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  Speaker 1: necessary to protect democracy. The controversy underscores the tension between
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  Speaker 1: election security and voter access. While Trump's rhetoric amplifies fears
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  Speaker 1: of fraud, the data shows that America's election system already
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  Speaker 1: has safeguards in place, and that non citizen voting remains
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  Speaker 1: a statistical rarity. As Congress debates new legislation, the clash
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  Speaker 1: between perception and reality will continue to shape the national
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  Speaker 1: conversation about voting rights, citizenship, and trust in democracy.