Hillary: Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Clinton

Hillary: Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Clinton - POLITICO Magazine:
"Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner. 
Thanks to the unique math undergirding the Electoral College, the mere presence of 11-12 million illegal immigrants and other noncitizens here legally may enable them to swing the election from Republicans to Democrats.
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..."