No non-citizens voted in voter fraud case cited by White House

Source: The Guardian

No non-citizens voted in voter fraud case cited by White House

Trump’s deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, offered
misleading account of Arkansas case in which court filings show no
one ineligible voting

Jon Swaine in New York
Tuesday 14 February 2017 23.59 GMT

A case cited by the White House as evidence that non-citizens cast illegal votes in American elections did not actually involve any non-citizens voting, the latest in a series of misleading statements on the subject by the administration.

Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, referred in a television interview on Sunday to an incident in her native Arkansas, which she said supported Trump’s claims about voter fraud.

Trump has repeatedly alleged, without evidence, that he lost the national popular vote to Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, because millions of non-citizens voted illegally. His claim has been widely dismissed as a fabrication. Trump said earlier this month that his administration would launch a national investigation into voter fraud, but then it did not.

After the president and a senior aide revived the claims last week, Huckabee Sanders was asked on MSNBC: “Do you think that there are 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants who cast votes, and that that would have swung the president’s election, in terms of the popular vote, his way?”

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