Texas sues Biden administration for not providing data on noncitizens
www.texastribune.org
Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the federal government of failing to provide citizenship data for registered voters, even as he acknowledged that the vast majority of the people on the rolls are lawful voters.
  • orclev@lemmy.world
    47·
    3 hours ago

    They must be panicking because they’ve found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won’t buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as “these are the ones we found, there’s probably tens of thousands we haven’t!”, but I bet they’ve only been able to find less than a hundred so now they’re looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 hours ago

      I can’t imagine why an illegal immigrant would want to vote. The whole thing is ludicrous.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      57 minutes ago

      I’ll bet they can’t find one illegally cast vote that was counted. People talk like it’s really uncommon. No, it’s so uncommon it never happens. I read some research that was done over a ten year period and they found less that 40 cases of vote fraud, almost none of which were for national office, and none of which had ever affected an outcome.

      Vote fraud in the US it’s effectively zero.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 hours ago

    (my bold)

    The lawsuit escalates Paxton’s hunt for noncitizen voters just two weeks before the election and a day after early voting began in Texas. He has pressed Texas Secretary of State Janet Nelson to request that the federal government hand over data the state could use to cross-check its voter rolls.

    His timing is impeccable.