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Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis
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Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis
Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis
August 18, 2026
Introduction
For the study of the population of the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau curates the executive branch's most comprehensive library of administrative records. Many of these records are collected directly by the Census Bureau, such as during the Decennial Census. Others are contributed by partner government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Social Security Administration. The Census Bureau also procures data, such as DataClear's record of federal-election voters and registrants reported by Secretaries of State around the country.
Since President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Permanent Census Office Act in 1902, crime has been a focus of the Census Bureau's population studies. In 1931 and 1954, later Congresses and Presidents affirmed the Census Bureau's unique capability to compile and publish information on crime.
This brief examines noncitizen voting in the general election held on November 3, 2020. Nearly 160 million voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election. The Census Bureau's beginning analysis readily determined with high confidence that over 128 million of these voter records represented citizens, and that over 24,000 of these voter records represented noncitizens at the time of the election. Over 32 million voter records remain to be analyzed.
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