Oops
The Texas Secretary of State, who is appointed by the Governor, made a big announcement that 95,000 people in Texas were registered to vote who were not citizens. And, holy mackerel, they could prove it.
They looked at Texas driver’s license applications and pulled out the names of people who applied for licenses while non-citizens from 1996 to 2018. They matched that with currently registered voters and came up with 95,000 “possible” non-citizens, which they later revised to 98,000.
The state then sent the county election officials a list of those names and asked them to contact each voter asking them to prove they are citizens.
And Donald Trump retweeted this great discovery.
But then, revisions were revised some more yesterday.
Texas naturalizes about 50,000 people a year. So, there’s a pretty good chance that some of these people became naturalized after applying for a driver’s license and then didn’t bother to notify the Department of Public Safety because they are not required to.
So, on the third revision, things like this happened.
The state initially told Cameron County that about 1,500 of the nearly 1,600 names on their list had been placed there in error. The state then called Cameron County and said they had given them the wrong number, Garza said.
In all, about 300 of the names on Cameron County’s list were put there in error, Garza said.
Are you starting to get the idea that the state doesn’t know what they are doing? Cameron County was initially told 1,600, then told 100, and next was told 1,200. And it’s only Wednesday.
Additionally, many of the names have been found of citizens who registered to vote at the naturalization ceremony.
Needless to say, LULAC, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the ACLU and damn near everybody else is on this like green on grass.
“Are you starting to get the idea that the state doesn’t know what they are doing?”
Actually, I believe they know exactly what they are doing. The seed is firmly planted, with confirmation by the ignorant narcissist in the White House. So, in the minds of the proudly ignorant morons, we have evidence! Irrefutable evidence! Nothing gonna change their minds. Republicans!!!
1“Any illegal vote deprives Americans of their voice.”
I wish to &^%* they would care about “depriving of their voice” the Americans they’re depriving of their voices when they suppress and deny the right to vote by legally registered voters or those who could be legally registered.
Not to mention the three million more Americans who voted for Clinton than for the [anatomical reference] occupying the WH.
2This is easy to interpret and understand,
1. Ken Paxton is a criminal.
32. Everything Ken Paxton says is a lie.
God forbid that the state go through the process and deliver a final report, *before* going public…
4Um? Was this supposed to be a magic show?
5Unfortunately, this will probably work quite well. Six months from now, my sister-in-law bless her heart, will either remember that 98,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, or that 980,000 illegal aliens are voting in Texas every damn day.
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