Subject: Re: Bbbut illegals don't vote
Think about that statement, and the cognitive dissonance buried in it. For those who don't get it...they already broke a host of laws to get here in the first place. What's one more?

It's pretty obvious. There is absolutely no risk/reward ratio involved.

The benefits to entering the United States are enormous, especially for people that fleeing persecution in their home countries. It can basically save their lives. Many (most) of those folks don't break a "host" of laws, but usually just illegal entry - which is not a crime, and typically only carries a penalty of expulsion if you're caught and busted. Very high reward, very low risk.

Contrast that with voting. There's almost no benefit to voting in a federal election. Nearly all federal elections involve such large electorates that the odds of a single vote changing the outcome are exceedingly small; and even in the insanely unlikely event that happened, there's usually no material benefit to any individual voter. Even the smallest congressional districts have hundreds of thousands of registered voters.

On the other hand, the risk is exceedingly high - in order to actually vote in the way that conservatives fear (illegally registering and then voting that illegal registration), you have to leave an easily discoverable paper trail. In any election that's close enough for your vote to matter, it's close enough that a lot of very interested and dedicated partisans are going to be poring over the registration and voting databases. Which is how people who do get caught voting illegally (almost always U.S. citizens doing something like voting twice or voting someone else's ballot) get caught.

Because of the interconnection between drivers license registration (motor voter) and voter registration, it's not entirely surprising that a small number of people ended up being mistakenly included in the registration rolls for voting. It would be child's play to see if any of them actually voted, so it looks like none of them did. Which makes sense - it doesn't sound like any of the individuals did anything to try to get on the voter rolls.