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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: TomSea on April 27, 2019, 06:36:20 pm

Title: Texas settles lawsuit over bungled search for illegal votes
Post by: TomSea on April 27, 2019, 06:36:20 pm
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Texas settles lawsuit over bungled search for illegal votes
Associated Press

Texas officials announced Friday that they had settled a lawsuit over a bungled search for ineligible voters that President Trump stoked over Twitter, but that resulted in the U.S. citizenship of thousands of people being wrongly called into question.

The agreement officially ends a botched scouring of Texas voter rolls that began in January and was beset by deeply flawed data. It flagged nearly 100,000 registered voters, but wrongly captured naturalized citizens, and a federal judge who halted the search in February noted in his order that only about 80 people to that point had been identified as potentially ineligible to vote.

The problems with the list were discovered within days, but not before Trump seized on the reports out of Texas to renew his unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud in the U.S.

Read more at: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-texas-voting-lawsuit-settlement-david-whitley-20190427-story.html (https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-texas-voting-lawsuit-settlement-david-whitley-20190427-story.html)

This story did not turnout well but nonetheless, we should have full voting ID.