Election Integrity Group Sues Harris County Over Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

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Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson September 28, 2020

Public Interest Legal asks court to compel Texas’ most populous county to clean up its voter registration act. “When someone is telling you upfront that they aren’t a citizen, don’t register them.”

An election integrity group is suing Texas’ most populous county to clean up its act after obtaining public records that show election officials are adding potentially ineligible people to local voter rolls—including applicants who state they are not U.S. citizens.

Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity law firm that specializes in fighting to enforce voter list maintenance laws, filed a petition in state court Monday to compel Harris County Voter Registrar Ann Bennett to follow Texas election laws and reject insufficient voter applications.

Records obtained by PILF after a two-year legal fight show Harris County has been adding applicants to the county’s voter registration list who failed to answer the citizenship question—and worse, those who answered “No” to the question “Are you a United States citizen?”—even though Texas law requires voter registrars to reject those applications.

“When someone is telling you upfront that they aren’t a citizen, don’t register them,” PILF’s Communications and Research Director Logan Churchwell told Texas Scorecard.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/election-integrity-group-sues-harris-county-over-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls/