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

Robert Courtney Smith
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2017, 3 (4) 148-175; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.09
Robert Courtney Smith
aProfessor of sociology, immigration studies, and public affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and Sociology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY
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vol. 3 no. 4 148-175
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.09

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© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Smith, Robert Courtney. 2017. “’Don’t Let the Illegals Vote!’: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(4): 148–75. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.09. I would like to thank the volume editors, anonymous reviewers, Suzanne Nichols, and other staff at the Russell Sage Foundation for their especially diligent work on my paper and this volume. I also thank Manuel Garcia y Griego, Lori Minnite, John Mollenkopf, Jeffrey Passel, and Harel Shapira for giving insightful comments on an earlier version of the paper; and Andrew A. Beveridge for collaborating on the survey. Robert Smith and Andrew A. Beveridge gratefully acknowledge the support of the CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant #1857, Cycle 18, “Contested Immigrant Integration and American Institutions, 2011–2012.” Direct correspondence to: Robert Courtney Smith at robert.smith@baruch.cuny.edu, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, Box D0901, 1 Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY 10010. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. aProfessor of sociology, immigration studies, and public affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and Sociology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY
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    Robert Courtney Smith, (robert.smith{at}baruch.cuny.edu)
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    • PORT CHESTER’S VOTING RIGHTS ACT CASE
    • IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INTEGRATION, NARRATIVES, AND DISCRIMINATION IN VOTING
    • THE LONGITUDINAL, SATURATED, EMBEDDED ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY
    • A BRIEF HISTORY OF PORT CHESTER TO THE EVE OF THE VRA TRIAL
    • EXPLANATIONS AND EMERGENCE OF THE ILLEGAL LATINO VOTER THREAT NARRATIVE
    • THE ILLEGAL VOTER THREAT NARRATIVE IN PORT CHESTER’S REGISTERED VOTERS
    • THE ILLEGAL LATINO VOTER THREAT NARRATIVE IN OCTOBER 2006 PUBLIC HEARINGS
    • BARRY DEUTCHE’S ANONYMOUS, RACIALLY DIVISIVE CAMPAIGN FLYER
    • BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION IN VOTING
    • DAVID CRUZ’S STOLEN 1991 ELECTION
    • POLL WORKER–VOTER INTERACTION
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