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According to this cnn article, it was documented that 624 illegals voted in a very close election in california.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/13/cq/sanchez.html
Here is some more info from a member of the house judiciary committee
http://judiciary.house.gov/OversightTestimony.aspx?ID=777

Another tactic employed by illegal aliens and noncitizens to obtain voting rights involves absentee voting. Absentee voting has become increasingly common, and there are no safeguards in place to ensure the actual voter is voting or for elections officials to challenge the voter in person as a possible illegal voter. In effect, there are no safeguards in place to ensure the person requesting the absentee ballot is actually the person voting. Elections official’s hands are tied to protect the integrity of the voting ballot.

In Utah, it was discovered that more than 58,000 illegal aliens had fraudulently obtained drivers’ licenses. A legislative audit bureau determined that possibly 383 illegal aliens were registered to vote. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a sample consisting of 135 of these individuals and discovered that five were naturalized citizens, twenty were “deportable”, one was a permanent legal resident, and 109 had no record and were assumed to be in the United States illegally. More alarmingly, it was revealed that at least fourteen had voted in a recent Utah election.

“Instead of creating a new card, the Commission recommends that states use ‘REAL ID’ cards for voting purposes. The REAL ID Act, signed into law in May 2005, requires states to verify each individual’s full legal name, date of birth, address, Social Security number, and U.S. citizenship before the individual is issued a driver’s license or personal ID card. The REAL ID is a logical vehicle because the National Voter Registration Act established a connection between obtaining a driver’s license and registering to vote. The REAL ID cards adds two critical elements for voting — proof of citizenship and verification by using the full Social Security number. The REAL ID Act does not require that the card indicates citizenship, but that would need to be done if the card is to be used for voting purposes. In addition, state bureaus of motor vehicles should automatically send the information to the state’s bureau of elections.” “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections: Report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform,” The Carter-Baker Report (Sept. 2005)

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.

"I won on election night," Dornan said. "In her heart of hearts, Loretta Sanchez knows that."

Dornan vowed he would stay active in politics, and he hinted that he might run for the Senate against California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose term expires this year. He also intimated that either he or his son, Mark Dornan, would challenge Sanchez again this year.

"There will be a Dornan running for the 46th District," he said, but he asserted that he and his family had not decided which one of them it would be.

Dornan's aggressive personal style and the intensity with which he argued that he had been wronged eventually hurt his case. After he got into a heated argument about the matter with Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., on the House floor in September, the House voted to strip him of his former member's floor privileges.

In explaining how the task force reached its conclusion, Ehlers said the panel began with a pool of 7,841 suspicious votes, culled from a comparison of California voting records with INS records. That number was whittled down as investigators weeded out individuals who either did not vote or who proved to be qualified to vote after all.

Eventually, Ehlers said, 624 illegal, non-citizen voters were identified, and they were added to the 124 voters that California officials had disqualified because of improperly delivered absentee ballots.

The continuing investigation had become politically treacherous for Republicans. Democrats kept up the pressure by introducing multiple resolutions on the House floor calling for an end to the probe. And they seized on the issue to court Hispanic voters, who are being avidly wooed by both parties out of deference to their growing electoral strength.

You have to have car insurance if you drive, should that be free too?

I don't care for the partisan bs.

I tried to find some from a democrat politician, but couldn't find any. As I said, democrat politicians don't complain about that issue because they know illegals are more likely to vote democrat if they do vote, so you can't find articles from democrat politicians.

You make it sound as if only republican voters are concerned about illegals voting.

Well, bob said thanks for the proof of 624 illegals voting, so obviously I'm not the only one who saw it that way...
As for a republican complaining about illegals voting, would it have been more credible if a democrat said it?

In Wisconsin you don't have to have car insurance to drive, you do need proof of car insurance before you drive the car off the lot, but once you do you can cancel it. You do however need a some type of photo ID to buy a car, so why is it that people are ok with that but ok with providing one to vote? Most people drive to the polls anyway.

This entire argument is stupid. For the people who don't have photo IDs already (i.e., a driver's license), all we have to do is provide a national ID at no cost to them.

No where in the constitution does it say people have the right to vote. It does say that if states give you the ability to vote they can not abridge it based on certain factors, including a tax or fee, which I would argue this is a fee that is being imposed. Oh well, there goes more of my rights.