Noncitizen voting

Thank you for your article - the logic for Voter ID is over whelming. You can't drive a car or a slew of lesser things without an ID so why should you be able to do one of the most important things like voting without an ID?

I would like to update one of the citations and comment on the others.

The Electoral Studies paper was published in 2014 by Jesse Richman, PhD, of Old Dominion University. In 2017, more than 200 political scientists signed a letter rejecting the findings, stating, “"The scholarly political science community has generally rejected the findings in the Richman et al. study and we believe it should not be cited or used in any debate over fraudulent voting," One issue is the survey on which Richman used was wholly unsuited to study noncitizen voting. In 2024, James Agretsi manipulated the data from Richman’s study and used it to claim "between 10% and 27% of noncitizens are illegally registered to vote." It was this paper that was picked up by conservative influencers, and from there reached the Heartland Institute, where it was picked up by conservative websites. Elon Musk retweeted one of the headlines in circulation at that time and garnered tens of millions of views: “Up to a third” of illegal immigrants are registered to vote according to new study: “Potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people.” This was not true, Agretsi stands by the claim. Richman himself believes the best estimate of the registration rate by noncitizens in the US is less than 1 percent. So it is deceiving to state the claim was published in a scholarly journal. It is the interpretation of the data by one man, and the data on which it is based has been refuted. The fact-checking website Snopes investigated the matter and communicated directly with Richman and Agretsi (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/noncitizens-registered-to-vote/).

The roughly half million California residents disqualified for jury duty in prior one-year periods was for various reasons, and there is no evidence they were all registered voters. Sources for jury duty rolls include those who pay taxes or have a driver’s license or state ID, which does not require citizenship status (https://azcir.org/news/2025/03/14/were-half-a-million-registered-california-voters-disqualified-from-jury-duty-because-they-were-noncitizens-no/).

The FBI seizing records of a local elections agency is not proof of any wrongdoing. The Carter Center monitored the recount in Georgia and found nothing out of ordinary, concluding that the process “should serve as the basis for increased confidence in Georgia’s electoral system.”

An Mr. Khan--what was he thinking?

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Marty, highlighting voter fraud occurring in our backyard. If this is happening in Lodi, imagine the sheer amount of voter fraud occurring in other California cities. To wit, investigative reporter Nick Shirley is in California exposing voter fraud, including irregularities in voters per location, over 30 people registered to vote in a mail store, and voters over 125 years old. Let’s hope Congress does the right thing and passes the SAVE Act. As backup, we have Trump’s Executive Orders on election integrity.