In July, President Trump made an address to the nation re-asserting that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He said he had new evidence that he released on July 17 proving this. His smoking gun was that 278,000 non-citizens were registered to vote around the county. I don’t dispute the findings of the Department of Homeland Security investigation, but what is unknown is whether or not very many voted, and if the outcome of the race where they voted would have made a difference.

To illustrate the point, many of the non-citizens registered to vote are in deep blue states. Biden would have won those precincts and states whether the non-citizens voted or not.

The Heritage foundation conservative think tank has been investigating and tracking this topic for years. They advocate for reforms in election laws, like the SAVE act. “A close analysis of the Heritage Foundation’s own database demonstrates that there is no crisis of non-citizen voting. Further analysis of these cases shows that most involve “voter mistake” and not “voter fraud,” such as situations where a person unintentionally violated an election law.

The Heritage Foundation’s data makes clear that while non-citizen voting does happen in extraordinarily rare occasions, it is not a widespread problem impacting the outcome of any elections. Cases of outright voter fraud by non-citizens are exceptionally rare to the point of being statistically irrelevant.” (Heritage Foundation)

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins weighed in on Missouri’s election security: “Free and fair elections begin with clean voter rolls. That’s why Missouri conducts regular, extensive voter registration list maintenance—and we’re strengthening those efforts with powerful new tools.” Hoskins said more than 280,000 ineligible registered voters have been purged from the roles including felons, non-citizens, deaths, duplication and citizens moving out of their county.

St Charles County Clerk Kurt Bahr said that Missouri is ahead of the curve in election security. Missouri already has in place four of the five recommendations for election security as outlined by the President in July. The four requirements include: Valid photo identification, protected voting systems that can never be hacked or compromised, paper ballots and no mail-in ballots except for rare cases such as military deployment, illness, or disability.

Missouri has required citizenship to vote since 1924. The additional step from the President’s recommendations would be to provide proof of citizenship when one registers to vote.

Joan DeHart of Maysville has worked as a Dekalb County election judge for 30 years. She said Missouri’s system of machine read paper ballots are faster and more accurate than hand counted ballots, but allow for hand recounting to check for errors.

When asked how secure our elections are? DeHart responded: “If every state did what Missouri does, we would not have any election problems.”

The takeaway is you can have a high degree of confidence in Missouri elections.