As we reported here at the end of January, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asserted that as many as 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in the state.
The ACLU is now attempting to stop any purging of the list by filing lawsuits against the Texas Secretary of State, the Director of Elections and county officials!
From the Houston Chronicle,
Several civil rights and voting advocacy groups sued Texas officials and five county elections administrators on Monday over an advisory urging counties to review the citizenship status of thousands of voters flagged as possible non-citizens.
The ACLU of Texas, along with the Texas Civil Rights Project, Demos and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, filed the lawsuit against Texas Secretary of State David Whitley and Director of Elections Keith Ingram, alleging that their recommendations discriminate against naturalized citizens. Also named in the suit are the election administrators in Galveston, Blanco, Fayette, Caldwell, and Washington counties, who sent out notices threatening to cancel voter registrations based on the list. [This is the type of intimidation the ACLU relishes—going after local officials.—-ed]
In a Jan. 25 advisory, Whitley asked local elections offices to look into the citizenship of 95,000 people on the voter rolls. Since then, the list has been cut by nearly 20,000 names — registered voters who were identified as citizens.
This sounds very reasonable to me, but it sent the ACLU around the bend!
The secretary of state can’t remove voters from the rolls, but county elections officials can. Whitley has instead recommended that counties send notices to the people they flagged as possible non-citizens, giving them 30 days to prove they’re eligible to vote by presenting a birth certificate, passport or certificate of naturalization. If they don’t respond, their registrations will be canceled by the county voter registrar.
Whitley’s list drew from documents people submitted to the Department of Public Safety when they were applying for drivers licenses. Non-citizens, such as temporary residents, asylum seekers and refugees, can get a Texas drivers license but can’t register to vote unless they become U.S. citizens.
Whitley said the list includes 58,000 people who have cast ballots in Texas elections.
As I have said on several previous occasions, if you are looking for something to do, get involved with your local board of elections and see how they are handling this issue of determining who is a citizen eligible to vote. See if they are working to at least purge the dead people!
Sad that Texas will soon be like Colorado, California and New York.
You are an amazing truth sleuth and truth teller!!!
I believe that Ilhan Omar fits into all three of your categories Ann..
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Texas should use GA’s model. SoS updates the voter rolls with notifications from SSDI, USPS etc and sends out response-required “are you still there?” cards to too-long inactive voters; each county is responsible for election operations – not enough machines? County’s fault. Inoperable machines? County’s fault. When I renewed my driver’s license, I had to present my old license, my birth certificate, and mail delivered to me at my claimed address. Also often legit citizens who claim voter fraud don’t have the common sense when they change address simply to update their voter registration as routinely as they notify the utility company. See Stacey Abrams.
Great. Published: http://bit.ly/2E9efOr
Rich
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 6:58 AM Frauds, Crooks and Criminals wrote:
> Ann Corcoran posted: “As we reported here at the end of January, Texas > Attorney General Ken Paxton asserted that as many as 95,000 non-citizens > are registered to vote in the state. The ACLU is now attempting to stop any > purging of the list by filing lawsuits against the Tex” >