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[Jeff P]

Even if none of them ever voted (ignoring that argument for purposes of this post) they show up in the Ten Year US Census data.

In turn that influences which party gets majority control of the House.

How Your State Gets Its Seats: Congressional Apportionment:
https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/site...ortionment.pdf

After the census results are provided by the President to Congress, the Clerk of the House informs the governor of each state how many seats his or her state is entitled. What happens next in the process?
http://history.house.gov/Institution...eapportioning/

It also determines the number of Delegates each state has in the Electoral College:

Distribution of Electoral Votes:
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its Senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.

Get enough of them into your party's states, keep them happy so they don't move to opposing party states - and you basically control the country.

-jp
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