Spotted this on the Canadian blog Small Dead Animals:
The analysis conclusion was that Trump would have won New Mexico had voting been restricted to US citizens. As I looked at the chart and the math, I was struck by the obvious – when a country is so evenly divided, it doesn’t take a lot of chicanery to tilt an election’s outcome. The Kennedy-Nixon was decided by 0.17% of the popular vote – and I’m pretty sure both sides had a bit of voter fraud. Four years later, Lyndon Johnson won with 61% of the vote – voter fraud wasn’t a problem. If this analysis is correct, New Mexico’s 5 electoral votes went for the loser because of non-citizen voting. This is enough to keep me watching, not enough to make a solid decision, because research isn’t always done to my standards. This study was accredited to the Washington Post (please check and comment – I’m writing with a bad head cold and the numbers aren’t staying in place for me).
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