We hear a lot about the electoral college, but not much about the modern day influence on that body. This is a good read if you really want to know instead of the shrill yelling !

"The right to vote is intended to be a singular privilege of citizenship. But the 1787 Constitutional Convention rejected allowing the people to directly elect their President. The delegates chose instead our Electoral College system, under which 538 electoral votes distributed amongst the states determine the presidential victor. The Electoral College awards one elector for each U.S. Senator, thus 100 of the total, and D.C. gets three electors pursuant to the 23rd Amendment. Those electoral numbers are unaffected by the size of the noncitizen population. The same cannot be said for the remaining 435, more than 80 percent of the total, which represent the members elected to the House."


Now that is the basic premise and most of us already know that, BUT allow for illegal immigrants, voters or not.

"The distribution of these 435 seats is not static: they are reapportioned every ten years to reflect the population changes found in the census. That reallocation math is based on the relative “whole number of persons in each state,” as the formulation in the 14th Amendment has it. When this language was inserted into the U.S. Constitution, the concept of an “illegal immigrant,” as the term is defined today, had no meaning. Thus the census counts illegal immigrants and other noncitizens equally with citizens. Since the census is used to determine the number of House seats apportioned to each state, those states with large populations of illegal immigrants and other noncitizens gain extra seats in the House at the expense of states with fewer such “whole number of persons.”
This math gives strongly Democratic states an unfair edge in the Electoral College."


I KNOW that the professional folks working on campaigns are well aware of this but most of us are not.

Many have said illegal immigrants do in fact alter elections and they do even though they cannot vote.

If you read the entire article is does a bit of analysis of 2016 election as well.

Not as exciting as the candidates attacking each other or posters doing the same but this is the work that professional politicians set their attention to.