It is Said a High Number of the Undocumented Vote -- But . . .

   All this makes me wonder how many undocumented people actually do vote.
  Oh, I can see how it makes you mad -- a person here illegally, illegally voting -- piling one crime on the top of the other.
   But, how often does it happen?
   I search the Internet, and find sites asserting that undocumented voting is quite high.
   "It's almost certain that illegals (in 2016) did vote -- and in significant numbers," says an article in the Investor's Business Daily.
   "We find that some noncitizens participated in the U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and congressional elections," says Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha, and David C. Earnest in a 2014 study in the online Electoral Studies Journal.
   I only suggest is seems strange. By far, the vast majority of  the undocumented hide in the shadows, not wanting to be discovered and deported. Often, they might even be the victim of a crime and not report it because they fear being  uncovered.
   Now, why would they change that pattern just to turn out to vote? Especially if voting involves committing an illegal act, and they know that if they commit an illegal act, it means they will be deported?
   It means sticking their neck way out -- sticking it on the line and risking everything. Do they go that far just to vote? Do they go ahead and do it, anyway? In fact, are there so many doing it that they are doing it in significant numbers like the critics suggest? Is the amount of those doing it so high and meaningful that it changes outcomes in the Electoral College?
   If perhaps it is true, it doesn't make a lot of sense. And, when things don't make sense, sometimes it is wise not to buy into them too quickly.