Who will influence the 2018 elections more: Russia or Mexico?

American Thinker: Exactly how many votes is Russia alleged to have cast in the 2016 elections?  I believe that the number is zero.

Exactly how many votes have citizens of Mexico and Central America cast in the 2016 elections?  We don’t know the exact number, but we know that it is much more than zero.

A 2014 study in the online Electoral Studies Journal shows that in the 2008 and 2010 elections, illegal immigrant [sic; should be “aliens” –ed.] votes were in fact quite high.

“We find that some noncitizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and congressional elections,” wrote Jesse T. Richman [and] Gulshan A. Chattha, both of Old Dominion University, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University.

More specifically, they write, “Noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress.”

Specifically, the authors say that illegals may have cast as many as 2.8 million votes in 2008 and 2010.  That’s a lot of votes.  And when you consider [that] the population of illegal inhabitants has only grown since then, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that their vote has, too.

So why is Russia getting all the attention?  Russia, at worst, operated a small-scale propaganda campaign on places like Twitter and Facebook before the election.   MORE