How many illegals voted for Sanchez in her 1996 stolen election? Hundreds of illegal immigrants were proven to have illegally voted, but Congress stopped short of investigating whether thousands of others may have also voted as the records seemed to indicate. Consider how similar lying leftist Democrat arguments are also today for covering up clear Democrat voter fraud while not proving false the evidence of fraud.
https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/13/cq/sanchez.html
Proof Of Illegal Voters Falls Short, Keeping Sanchez In House
By Jackie Koszczuk, CQ Staff Writer
The House is set to dismiss former GOP Rep. Robert K. Dornan's challenge to election results that forced him to give up his California seat to Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, ending an acrimonious 13-month battle that many Republican leaders believe has hurt the party with Hispanic voters nationwide.
Sanchez took the seat from six-term incumbent Dornan in November 1996 by just 984 votes. Dornan claimed the election was stolen through rampant illegal voting by non-citizens.
Acting on a recommendation from a contested-election task force, the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 4 voted 8 to 1 to drop the investigation of Dornan's claims. The full House is likely to accept that verdict when the resolution is introduced sometime the week of Feb. 9.
Task force Chairman Vernon J. Ehlers, R-Mich., said investigators had found concrete evidence of 748 illegal votes by non-citizens, not enough to throw Sanchez's victory into doubt. He and other Republicans said the results nonetheless show that Dornan's challenge was not frivolous and that the GOP was not unfairly targeting Hispanic voters.
"The fact that we ended up with 748 illegal votes makes it clear his allegations had merit," Ehlers said.
Democrats have characterized the probe as a witch hunt, charging that Republicans sought to unfairly single out and intimidate Hispanic voters. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the lone Democrat on the task force, said of the panel's recommendation, "It's never too late to do the right thing."
Sanchez celebrated surrounded by House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., and cheering Democratic lawmakers and staff at a rally held just after the task force's decision. "I feel great," Sanchez said. "When you stand up and you fight for something and you know that you're right, justice can prevail."
Gephardt said: "Loretta won this election fair and square. There's never been a doubt in my mind."
Not Going Quietly
Dornan, who was present with his wife and daughter for the committee's decision, was as outspoken as ever. He asserted that he won the election, but that the panel was unable to prove it because its investigators were stonewalled by Sanchez, by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and by Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, a group that helped register Latinos in California but which was found by committee investigators to have registered large numbers of non-citizens.
