“Don’t Let the Illegals Vote!”: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration

This paper analyzes how the belief and fear by mostly older, white voters, politicians, and poll workers that “illegal” Latino immigrants were seeking to vote in local elections led to stigmatization of and discrimination against some Latino citizen voters in Port Chester, New York. Stoked by and cl...

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Published in:	RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Main Author:	Robert Courtney Smith
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Russell Sage Foundation 2017-07-01
Subjects:	myth of voter fraud myth of illegal Latino voters voting rights act democracy immigrants citizens
Online Access:	http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.09