Illegal immigrants—along with other non-citizens without the right to vote—may help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton win the White House?
Wait, what? Yes, that’s the conclusion of a new analysis in Politico that makes the case that the Electoral College’s skewed math based on the population of states – both the legal and illegal population – directly favors so-called blue states that lean Democratic.
How? The Electoral College awards one elector for each U.S. Senator, thus 100 of the total, and D.C. gets three electors pursuant to the 23rd Amendment. Those electoral numbers are unaffected by the size of the non-citizen population.
But “the same cannot be said for the remaining 435, more than 80 percent of the total, which represent the members elected to the House.” Those are allocated based on the U.S. Census, which are reapportioned every ten years to reflect the population changes found in the census.
“That reallocation math is based on the relative “whole number of persons in each state,” as the formulation in the 14th Amendment has it,” authors Paul Goldman and Mark J. Rozell write in Politico. “When this language was inserted into the U.S. Constitution, the concept of an ‘illegal immigrant,’ as the term is defined today, had no meaning.
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Precisely why we need voter ID requirements.....and a minimum IQ requirement!
ReplyDeletehillary should be the one to UPHOLD the law pertaining to national elections,you must be a u.s. citizen in matters at the country level to vote SOOOOOOOO WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL stand by the constitution ENOUGH SAID
ReplyDeleteThat's the only way she would win - illegally.
ReplyDeleteThat's why she keeps lying. She doesn't have to tell the truth.
ReplyDeletethis has been known for some time now.
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