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Trump's campaign against noncitizen voting demonstrates it's rare and not enough to swing elections
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... The Trump administration's campaign to root out noncitizen voting is demonstrating what critics of President Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories have long argued -- that it's incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of elections.

The administration has dedicated enormous resources to what election experts and administrators characterize as a comparatively small issue " noncitizens who, often due to misunderstanding the law, add their votes to the tens of millions of ballots cast during national elections.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced federal charges against 10 people in Minnesota alleged to have voted illegally over the last three elections, a period in which more than 8 million ballots were cast in the state.

"We're focused on providing accountability and restoring trust in our elections," Blanche said, lamenting that the media did not take seriously the charges for voter fraud his office has brought.

He said those added up to 90 for various types of election misconduct, including 50 against people who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens.

Even the 90 cases, which conflate voter fraud cases involving citizens of both political parties with those alleging noncitizen voting, are nominal in terms of the number of votes cast during presidential elections. It's nowhere near enough votes to swing any significant federal or even state election.

The U.S. had nearly 228 million registered voters for the 2024 presidential election, with more than 152 million ballots cast.

"They're incredibly low numbers no matter how you slice it," said Aaron Blacksberg of the Institute for Responsive Government, who was on a panel of election officials and experts on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., just before Blanche's announcement. ...



Ah, just for fun: People take up enough column inches with other crap no one wants to see:

How to Use rat in a Sentence
rat
noun
Definition of rat
Synonyms for rat

I can't believe that rat turned us in to the police!
Every night he goes to work out with the other gym rats.
No one understands why she's with a rat like him.
Are there rats or mice on cruise ships?
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
That ****** is a rat ****** cap.
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Dan Raby, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
More than likely a mouse or rat.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The rain, or the rats, had made holes in all the flour sacks.
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Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
These are like dollar store rats.
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
The rat tail, his little jabs here and there.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Are rats cute, creepy, or a matter of genre?
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
There are rats in the yard from the orange tree.
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Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.
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Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
For her, yes, the noise, yes, the dirt, yes, the heat"whoops, a rat!
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D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
The risk of seeing a rat or mouse on your next cruise is, too.
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Not a gym rat but want to burn off the late-night snacks and buffet bites?
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Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
These posts referred to the witness as a rat and as a snitch.
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Both old friends had fond memories of rats.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Stop these rats by installing a locking gas cap.
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Noe returned to the wharf and slung the dead rat across the water.
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Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
In one, an empty egg crate was filled with newborn rats.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
One of the rats available for adoption.
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Neal Riley, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The human cells wound up making up one-sixth of the rats' brains.

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Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
VanDam hopes the craze fades, the crowds ebb and the rat hole can stay.
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Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Lali actively hunts mice, rats, and birds.
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Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
In the meantime, traffic and rats.
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The two cats stayed at the house but also roamed outside to help with the rats.
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Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
Short of these kinds of changes, no amount of rat poison can fix the problem.
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Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026
Squirrel poop is about half an inch long, but a little rounder than rat poop.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
That way, the rat has to work at getting the nut, which will trigger the trap.
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Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024

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