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58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends
6:22 AM - 27 Jan 2019
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crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)And it is rampant in a district that Trump won (NC-09)
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Already making excuses for losing.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)Conditioning for the most outrageous lies.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)onethatcares
(16,188 posts)5 or 6 times. They just go out to the car and change their hat or tie, shirt, pants, men put on skirts and women put on carharts and mustaches. They use a lot of mustaches. And glasses, they change their glasses more often than Foster Grant.
It's an amazing but workable plan. Especially in Texas cause it's so close to the Mexican border.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)feed a million moons ago.
Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)Repubs need new talking points.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)By PAUL J. WEBER
January 25, 2019
... In 2017, a Fort Worth jury sentenced a Mexican national who has lived in the U.S. since she was a baby to eight years in prison for illegal voting, after which she faces deportation.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton highlighted that case in a statement about the latest numbers released by state elections officials. Roughly 58,000 of the suspected non-citizens are believed to have voted in at least one Texas election, and Paxton said his office will spare no effort in assisting with these troubling cases.
Nearly 16 million people in Texas are registered to vote. Paxton said his office last year prosecuted 33 people for voter fraud, though it was not immediately clear how many of those cases involved non-citizens ...
https://www.apnews.com/13fa3011d9da461b8dbb1669097b5285
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)By Jeremy Wallace
Updated 10:16 am CST, Saturday, January 26, 2019
... After being elected, Trump set up a voter fraud commission that ultimately disbanded with no clear evidence of widespread wrongdoing.
It took little time for Republicans to cite the states preliminary findings in fundraising pleas: We knew it was happening and now we have proof, said an email blast sent three hours after Paxtons press release.
But voter advocacy groups warn that Fridays announcement is an attempt to intimidate voters, and the contention that voter fraud is rampant has been repeatedly discounted ...
... About 50,000 Texas residents become naturalized citizens every year ...
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-is-purging-95-000-voters-suspected-to-be-13562186.php
Greywing
(1,124 posts)are voting Republican? Seems logical to me that they would be.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)Jan. 27, 2019, 1:14 PM EST
By Daniella Silva
President Donald Trump tweeted misleading statistics about voter fraud on Sunday ...
The tweet followed a segment on "Fox and Friends" ... But the shows claims, and Trumps, do not accurately reflect the findings announced by Texas authorities ...
A statement from Texas Director of Elections Keith Ingram .. said the states Department of Public Safety had provided information about people who offered documentation .. showing that the person is not a citizen of the United States when obtaining a drivers license or personal identification card ...
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley issued a statement Friday saying his office had flagged about 95,000 potential noncitizens .. <,> 58,000 of whom have voted in one of more Texas elections since 1996 ...
The advisory .. tells voter registrars that records submitted through this process will need to be treated as WEAK matches, meaning the county may choose to investigate the voter or take no action on the voter record if the voter registrar determines that there is no reason to believe the voter is ineligible ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-cites-misleading-statistics-alleging-texas-voter-fraud-n963331
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)Texas is trying to justify some voter purges https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-secretary-of-state-questions-citizenship-of-95000-registered-voters/ar-BBSKH7x?fbclid=IwAR2WBZ_e7FstfaVYxnjTybriiy2CMV87aj8uf1rmVsJ_ovSvQdFfurdFCrA
Because we have consistently seen Texas politicians conjure the specter of voter fraud as pretext to suppress legitimate votes, we are naturally skeptical, Representative Rafael Anchia, a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, said in a statement.
Kristen Clarke, the president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, also cautioned that the states findings, and the speed with which the attorney general raised the specter of prosecution, could foreshadow an attempt at voter suppression.
Texas has a rich history of undertaking action to make it harder for people to vote, she said. Whenever youre invoking the threat of criminal prosecution, the chilling effect becomes almost unavoidable.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)Link to tweet
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