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Miles Archer

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Sun Jan 27, 2019, 10:04 AM Jan 2019

Trump, workin' HARD on rigging 2020...

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58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends

6:22 AM - 27 Jan 2019


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Trump, workin' HARD on rigging 2020... (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2019 OP
ELECTION fraud is rampant crazycatlady Jan 2019 #1
He is scared SHRED Jan 2019 #2
The sad part is when he makes up this shit people hardly blink. gordianot Jan 2019 #3
Can non citizens even vote? dewsgirl Jan 2019 #4
sometimes onethatcares Jan 2019 #6
You know, I think I heard about that from a certain orange buffoons twitter dewsgirl Jan 2019 #7
Geez, their playbook is getting old... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #5
Anybody who says that non citizens are voting have never met a non citizen. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #8
GOPers cheat Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #9
Texas officials say thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls struggle4progress Jan 2019 #10
Texas moves to purge 95,000 voters suspected to be non-US citizens struggle4progress Jan 2019 #11
So since Texas is a huge big red state does this mean that these fraudulent voters Greywing Jan 2019 #12
Misleading statistics struggle4progress Jan 2019 #13
Texas Secretary of State Questions Citizenship of 95,000 Registered Voters Gothmog Jan 2019 #14
From the ACLU Gothmog Jan 2019 #15
Texas back tracks Gothmog Jan 2019 #16

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
3. The sad part is when he makes up this shit people hardly blink.
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 10:13 AM
Jan 2019

Conditioning for the most outrageous lies.

onethatcares

(16,131 posts)
6. sometimes
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:33 PM
Jan 2019

5 or 6 times. They just go out to the car and change their hat or tie, shirt, pants, men put on skirts and women put on carharts and mustaches. They use a lot of mustaches. And glasses, they change their glasses more often than Foster Grant.

It's an amazing but workable plan. Especially in Texas cause it's so close to the Mexican border.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
7. You know, I think I heard about that from a certain orange buffoons twitter
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 03:12 PM
Jan 2019

feed a million moons ago.

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
10. Texas officials say thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 04:18 PM
Jan 2019

By PAUL J. WEBER
January 25, 2019

... In 2017, a Fort Worth jury sentenced a Mexican national who has lived in the U.S. since she was a baby to eight years in prison for illegal voting, after which she faces deportation.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton highlighted that case in a statement about the latest numbers released by state elections officials. Roughly 58,000 of the suspected non-citizens are believed to have voted in at least one Texas election, and Paxton said his office “will spare no effort in assisting with these troubling cases.”

Nearly 16 million people in Texas are registered to vote. Paxton said his office last year prosecuted 33 people for voter fraud, though it was not immediately clear how many of those cases involved non-citizens ...

https://www.apnews.com/13fa3011d9da461b8dbb1669097b5285

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
11. Texas moves to purge 95,000 voters suspected to be non-US citizens
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 04:21 PM
Jan 2019

By Jeremy Wallace
Updated 10:16 am CST, Saturday, January 26, 2019

... After being elected, Trump set up a voter fraud commission that ultimately disbanded with no clear evidence of widespread wrongdoing.

It took little time for Republicans to cite the state’s preliminary findings in fundraising pleas: “We knew it was happening and now we have proof,” said an email blast sent three hours after Paxton’s press release.

But voter advocacy groups warn that Friday’s announcement is an attempt to intimidate voters, and the contention that voter fraud is rampant has been repeatedly discounted ...

... About 50,000 Texas residents become naturalized citizens every year ...

https://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-is-purging-95-000-voters-suspected-to-be-13562186.php

Greywing

(1,124 posts)
12. So since Texas is a huge big red state does this mean that these fraudulent voters
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 04:22 PM
Jan 2019

are voting Republican? Seems logical to me that they would be.

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
13. Misleading statistics
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 04:29 PM
Jan 2019

Jan. 27, 2019, 1:14 PM EST
By Daniella Silva

President Donald Trump tweeted misleading statistics about voter fraud on Sunday ...

The tweet followed a segment on "Fox and Friends" ... But the show’s claims, and Trump’s, do not accurately reflect the findings announced by Texas authorities ...

A statement from Texas Director of Elections Keith Ingram .. said the state’s Department of Public Safety had provided information about people who offered documentation .. “showing that the person is not a citizen of the United States” when obtaining a driver’s license or personal identification card ...

Texas Secretary of State David Whitley issued a statement Friday saying his office had flagged about 95,000 potential noncitizens .. <,> 58,000 of whom have voted in one of more Texas elections since 1996 ...

The advisory .. tells voter registrars that records submitted through this process “will need to be treated as WEAK matches,” meaning the county may choose to investigate the voter “or take no action on the voter record if the voter registrar determines that there is no reason to believe the voter is ineligible” ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-cites-misleading-statistics-alleging-texas-voter-fraud-n963331

Gothmog

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14. Texas Secretary of State Questions Citizenship of 95,000 Registered Voters
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 07:17 PM
Jan 2019

Texas is trying to justify some voter purges https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-secretary-of-state-questions-citizenship-of-95000-registered-voters/ar-BBSKH7x?fbclid=IwAR2WBZ_e7FstfaVYxnjTybriiy2CMV87aj8uf1rmVsJ_ovSvQdFfurdFCrA

But Democrats and voting rights advocates were skeptical of the state’s claims. 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.

“Because we have consistently seen Texas politicians conjure the specter of voter fraud as pretext to suppress legitimate votes, we are naturally skeptical,” Representative Rafael Anchia, a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, said in a statement.

Kristen Clarke, the president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, also cautioned that the state’s findings, and the speed with which the attorney general raised the specter of prosecution, could foreshadow an attempt at voter suppression.

“Texas has a rich history of undertaking action to make it harder for people to vote,” she said. “Whenever you’re invoking the threat of criminal prosecution, the chilling effect becomes almost unavoidable.”
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