Do "illegal aliens" vote? I hear this a lot from the Republicans...?

Question

I don't see any when I go vote, and there are quite a few around in my area... they don't seem to care about politics? and they are pretty poor, and the poor statistically don't vote hardly at all...

how do they even get registered? I had to show my id to be registered... and if you're not registered, you can't vote... and when one person votes, they mark the name off? so how do they vote?

are there any facts about illegals voting? citations from a story about them being caught?

maybe I just missed it?

if you're unfamiliar with any talking about his... here are some discussing it and making refrences to it...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArkjyukEhidWsbxw4U.PURXsy6IX?qid=20061020182520AAElGC9

again... I don't know if it does happen... but I've never seen anything to lead me to think it's a problem to any real degree

Answer 1

LOL!!!!!
They can't vote, because they are not citizens! One has to be a US citizen to vote in any government election. I don't get the neo-cons' arguments, either... If they get a driver's license, they might be able to fool the dmv into registering them, but again, in most states one has to be a documented worker (as in, a LEGAL alien) to get a driver's license...
This would mean that the state knows that these people are not citizens, though, and that would mean they are not tapped for voter registration. You have to be able to register in order to vote, so that precincts can track who's voted and prevent fraud.

Answer 2

I don't know, either, whether there are any illegal aliens registered to vote. But I DO know that they have an ALLEGED constitutional right to get an education. Have you ever heard of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)?

The state of Texas had created a law (May 1975) requiring that all children enrolled in the public schools be either U.S. citizens or legal immigrants -- prohibiting illegals. A little more than two years later a lawsuit was filed in Tyler, TX challenging the law as a violation of the 14th Amendment's guarantee of the equal protection of the laws. All three levels of the federal courts came to the same basic conclusion -- the law is unconstitutionally discriminatory. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling was by a narrow margin, 5 to 4, with Justice Brennan writing the majority opinion, for himself and Justices Blackmun, Marshall, Powell, and Stevens. (In previous cases, Justices Blackmun and Powell had taken the view that the state may constitutionally ban legal immigrants from jobs as police officers (Foley v. Connelie, 435 U.S. 291 (1978)) and that getting an education is not a constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right (San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)).) My "favorite" (note the sarcasm) part of Brennan's opinion for the Court is, "It is difficult to understand precisely what the State hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare, and crime." What a swell job of understanding the motives of the Texas legislature.

Six years after the Plyler decision, Professor David P. Currie, writing a two-volume text called "The Constitution in the Supreme Court," had harsh words for this particular decision. He wrote, "With all due respect, this is carrying solicitude a little far. Public resources are scarce and those who have no business being here can have poor claim on them. I may have a right to keep a burglar out of my house, the Court appears to be saying, but once he is there I must invite him to dinner."

Answer 3

Lets see, what is the definition of a Ponzi scheme? You have new investors put money in so you can pay off the original investors with interest. Lets see what Social Security is: you put money in while you work to cover those on it currently and hope that there are workers when you retire paying in to it. How come most conservatives and Republicans can understand this but the liberals can't. They want people to keep their hands off of Social Security and Medicare but are fine with collecting less in taxes that go to these to retirement funds.

Answer 4

If one's not registered, one can't vote. If you hear illegals vote , either the person telling you that is either lying, stupid, or Republican...most likely all three.

Answer 5

Who knows for sure? The real question for me is why Democrats are so opposed to making sure only citizens are rightfully voting?

Answer 6

who da f told you dat yes they can get cars and a house in some states but i dont know what republican you were talking to but they sound pretty stupid

Answer 7

NO...ONLY IF THEY REALLY HAVE FOOLED IRS AND SS DEPT.
THEY ARE NOT REGISTERED.