Trump and his allies are using exceedingly rare instances of voting by undocumented immigrants to try to disenfranchise voters in battleground states

Republican Party , right-wing groups are using rare instances of voting by undocumented immigrants as pretext to try to purge more than one million voters from the rolls in battleground states.

Pro-Trump legal battalions have filed nearly 50 lawsuits claiming, with little basis, that as many as 1.4 million voters are illegally registered to vote.

Studies have shown that undocumented immigrants voting in elections is an exceedingly rare occurrence — likely because it is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.

The Heritage Foundation's database shows just 85 cases of alleged noncitizen voting between 2002 and 2023 .

Republicans and right-wing groups are also running afoul of federal voting rights law, Democrats say.

“I have never seen a single iota of evidence to support the allegation that noncitizens are voting in any significant number,” says Ezra Rosenberg .

Some Republican politicians are leading public battles with the Biden administration to try to support their narrative about noncitizen voting.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday .

Democrats believe Republicans ’ attempts in court to argue that voter rolls are full of ineligible voters are simply a ploy to lay the groundwork for stolen election claims.