Texas Warns Counties Of Flaws In Report Stoking Noncitizen Voter Fraud Fears

[deminks]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-report-noncitizen-voter-fraud-flaws

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Officials with the Texas secretary of state’s office began calling county election chiefs Tuesday to warn about problems with its recent report questioning the citizenship of tens of thousands of registered voters, the latest example of a state backpedaling after raising alarms about potential widespread election fraud.

Local officials told The Associated Press that they received calls from Texas Secretary of State David Whitley’s office indicating that some citizens had been included in the original data announced Friday. The state had used a database of drivers’ licenses and personal IDs to suggest that as many as 95,000 non-U.S. citizens may be on the state’s voter rolls and that as many as 58,000 may have cast a ballot at least once since 1996.

“We received a call from the state saying we should put things on hold,” said Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole. “Some of the data that they received was flawed. Some of the voters had already provided proof of citizenship.”

Whitley released a new statement Tuesday that didn’t provide any revised estimate of voters whose citizenship remains in question. It also doesn’t acknowledge any errors with the initial count, after his office Friday had expressed high confidence in the data that was used.

After the report, President Donald Trump this weekend went to Twitter to renew his unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud.

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BOGUS, just like our prezinut.

[calimary]

1. Fake fear-mongering.

[erpowers]

2. Surprise! Surprise!

I guess the only surprising things about this story is that it fell apart so fast and there is at least some form of admission that the story is falling apart. I thought the truth would come out, but that it would be swept under the rug. I thought when the truth came out they would just stop talking about the story.