Illegal immigrant’s two decades of unlawful votes expose the real 'threat' to democracy: Experts

After a Philadelphia illegal alien was discovered to have been voting for nearly two decades, experts are warning that a breakdown in voter confidence represents a "serious threat."

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"People have to believe that their vote counts. And so that's, I think, a much more serious long-term threat," said Hankinson. 

"We have a perception in the United States," he continued, "that elections were free and fair. If even the appearance of impropriety, the appearance of corruption, is bad enough to turn people off, to make people not interested in going to vote, to think, ‘Well, my vote doesn't count anyway.’ Then that's really what undermines democracy."