DOGE Team Exposes Millions of Illegal Aliens Voting in Elections

Question

This claim states that the Department of Government's efficiency exposed millions of illegal aliens voting in elections. Factcheck.org showed that though it does occur that illegal aliens it is nowhere close to millions. Elon Musk based this claim on illegal immigrants receiving social security cards, and some using those cards to vote in an election. Nowhere does this confirm that millions voted.

http://factcheck.org/2025/04/musks-unsupported-claim-to-have-unveiled-massive-illegal-voting-by-noncitizens/

Answer 1

This is false. Between 1999 and 2023 there were 77 noncitizens that voted in US elections according to factcheck.org and most of which were misled in thinking they could do so. Since congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 made illegally voting highly punishable with extreme negative consequences — even more so than before then. So therefore the claim “millions” of noncitizens voting is again false. 

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/musks-unsupported-claim-to-have-unveiled-massive-illegal-voting-by-noncitizens/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 

Comments

You did a great job highlighting how rare noncitizen voting actually is, and the use of the 77 documented cases is compelling. One thing I’d be curious to see is whether that number includes all local, state, and federal elections or just federal ones. Some cities — like in California and Vermont — have allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections under specific rules. It might strengthen your fact-check to clarify that the 77 cases are specific to federal violations, especially since critics sometimes conflate local policy exceptions with national law. It could help your argument stand out even more against sensationalized claims like Musk’s.

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Nice job providing evidence -- a statistic -- that shows the claim is false.

Answer 2

Why shouldn't non-citizens, or "illegal aliens" --as you so insensitively define them-- be allowed to vote? This is America, "land of the free", right? Who are we to say who can and can't vote?

Answer 3

The statement by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that they uncovered millions of illegal alien voters lacks credible support. Fact-checking organizations have found no evidence of illegal voting on the scale suggested by DOGE's claims, which were based on matching Social Security data with voter rolls. Experts consistently point out that instances of non-citizen voting are infrequent, and the legal repercussions for such actions prevent the widespread. Without the public release of verifiable data from DOGE, their claim of millions of illegal voters remains unsubstantiated by evidence-based analysis.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/musks-unsupported-claim-to-have-unveiled-massive-illegal-voting-by-noncitizens/