evidence: Ted Cruz: The voting rights bill "would register millions of illegal aliens to vote. It is intended to do that." [...] Registering ‘millions of illegal aliens’ to vote Cruz was not the first person to say this piece of legislation would expand voting access to immigrants who are in the country illegally. In March, as the House deliberated HR 1, former Vice President Mike Pence wrote in an opinion article that the bill would ensure that "millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote." Similar rhetoric then spread through viral social media posts, which claim that the bill gives immigrants in the country illegally the "right to vote."