So much for the liberal claims that there is no voter fraud... Texas says it found 95,000 non-citizens on voter rolls; 58,000 have voted https://www.foxnews.com/politics/te...-non-citizens-on-voter-rolls-58000-have-voted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that the state has discovered 95,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls going back to 1996, 58,000 of whom have voted in at least one Texas election -- an announcement likely to raise fresh concerns about the prospect of voter fraud. Texas has some of the toughest voter ID laws in the nation and has been one of the main battlegrounds in the Republican-led fight against alleged voter fraud. The office, in a statement, said that 33 people were prosecuted for voter fraud last year, and 97 were prosecuted between 2005-17. There are 16 million people in Texas registered to vote. “Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Paxton said in a statement. The New York Times reported that the findings were a result of of an 11-month investigation into records at the Texas Department of Public Safety. Gov. Greg Abbott praised the findings and hinted at future legislation to crack down on voter fraud. "I support prosecution where appropriate. The State will work on legislation to safeguard against these illegal practices," Abbott tweeted. The revelation is likely to have national consequences and stir debate and the role of voter fraud. President Trump created a commission in 2017 to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 election. But it was eventually dismantled by Trump after the group faced lawsuits, opposition from states and in-fighting among its members. Trump said at the time that Democrats refused to hand over data “because they know that many people are voting illegally.” Democrats have dismissed claims of voter fraud and accused Republicans of trying to disenfranchise minority voters with tight voter ID laws. Dallas state Rep. Rafael Anchia told The Associated Press that "because we have consistently seen Texas politicians conjure the specter of voter fraud as pretext to suppress legitimate votes, we are naturally skeptical." Paxton’s office noted that there have been a number of convictions of voter fraud in the state in recent years, including a charge against a non-citizen this month for illegal voting in Navarro County.
it's fox and Abbott; hardly reliable sources on this. May as well quote Kobach. Keep digging. I'm sure you'll find the other 2,999,900 votes one day Original source of story https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/noncitizens-voting-texas.html The Texas secretary of state’s office on Friday called into question the citizenship status of 95,000 registered voters who were found to have identified themselves at some point to a state law enforcement agency as noncitizen, legal residents of the United States. Sam Taylor, a spokesman for the secretary of state, said the announcement on Friday did not mean that the authorities had discovered 95,000 registered voters who it knew for a fact were noncitizens. “We can’t see a situation in which this would produce a false positive,” he said. “These are people whose last and most recent visits to D.P.S. showed them to be noncitizens through documentation that they submitted and which D.P.S. has kept on file.” But Ms. Clarke said there were often mundane explanations for cases like these, including simple administrative error. “In our experience, state databases are often riddled with errors, are not up-to-date and don’t reflect the most recent information with regard to individuals,” she said. “It will be very important for the state to provide more information about how they carried out their analysis, and we will have to test the veracity of their claims.”
I don't care who voted for the dog catcher at city council 20 yrs. ago. The office said its findings were a result of an 11-month investigation with the Texas Department of Public Safety that also found that about 58,000 people on the list had voted since 1996. The results of the investigation were referred on Friday to Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said he planned to open a potentially sprawling investigation. More than 8.3 million people voted in the Texas governor’s race last year, which means that even if all 58,000 people who voted were, in fact, found to be noncitizens and voted in 2018 — a claim that no state official has made — they would have amounted to only 0.69 percent of all votes that were cast.
A single illegal vote violates the entire integrity of the election system. 58,000 illegal votes is a massive violation of the election system. Just how many close local and state elections in Texas were certified for the incorrect candidate due to these illegal votes over the years.
Good luck preventing a single illegal vote in a country with over 300 million people. Considering hundreds of millions of votes has been cast in Texas since 1996 its highly unlikely 58,000 of those hundreds of millions made a difference.