This is On Point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. In May of this year, Republican election lawyer Clita Mitchell spoke to an online meeting of Michigan activists. She told the group she would present what she claimed were, quote, facts about non-citizen voting.

What we can do, give the ideas and tools for what we can do as citizens to try to stop

this hijacking of our elections by illegals, which is one of the ways that I actually think that

the left is thinking that they're going to control the outcome of the 2024 election.

Mitchell was spreading a lie. Multiple nationwide analysis have found that incidents of non-citizens voting are so rare as to basically be zero.

One study by the Brennan Center for Justice surveyed 42 jurisdictions with high immigrant populations in 2016.

And they found just 30 cases, 30, of non-citizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast.

30 out of 23.5 million, or 0.001% of votes.

Furthermore, the Conservative Heritage Foundation, which is now a chief source of multiple

falsehoods about election security, well, the Heritage Foundation has its own database.

You can look at it right now that says it includes a sampling of election fraud cases

dating back to 1979. And by the way, since 1979, approximately two billion votes have been

cast in federal elections in this country. Well, the Washington Post did a search of the

heritage database and looked between 2002 and

2003 and found that the Heritage Foundation's own tracking finds only 85 allegations

of non-citizen voting nationwide in a 21-year period where hundreds and hundreds of millions of votes were cast.

So again, 0.000,000, 0.01%, basically zero.

Now, I add this long digression back into reality

because Clita Mitchell trades in fantastical, non-real assertions about American elections.

At one point during that May call, Michigan activist Patrice Johnson chimed in saying the Democrats

can't win without cheating. And Mitchell responded, they can't win without cheating like that.

So I think that's right. that. I think that's right.

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