It brought together two of Donald Trump’s campaign’s most prominent themes—immigration and purported election fraud—and was distributed to a mailing list by Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
In November, Ms. Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, sent an email stating that up to 2.7 million illegal immigrants could vote, according to experts.
However, the stated figure comes from a highly contested survey conducted ten years ago.
Furthermore, it is evident that the 2.7 million figure is a significant exaggeration, even though there is some convincing evidence that some immigrants are registered to vote.
In 2014, the journal Electoral Studies released a paper titled “Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections?” which served as the basis for the statistic.
toThe “number of non-citizen voters… could range from just over 38,000 at the very minimum to nearly 2.8 million at the maximum,” according to a research authored by three academics under the direction of Jesse Richman, an associate professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
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To reach that conclusion, Mr. Richman and his colleagues used data from the Cooperative Election Study (CES), a long-running study supported by Harvard, rather than searching through voter lists or conducting in-person interviews with immigrants.
