Texas must halt voter roll citizenship review now | Opinion
People arrive to the Tarrant County Elections Center to vote early in Fort Worth, Tuesday, October 27, 2020.The office of the Texas secretary of state has launched another citizenship review to supposedly clean voter rolls and ensure the integrity of elections. What it has managed to do instead is to shake our confidence in its review process by flagging a significant number of citizens as suspicious — again.
What state officials need to do is clean up their own act. Secretary of State John B. Scott should pause the review immediately. In lists sent to county officials starting in September, the state has identified 11,737 voters as “possible non-U.S. citizens,” according to the. The outlet reported that in Bexar and Travis counties, at least 15% of the voters listed had registered to vote at naturalization ceremonies.
In Dallas County, 12% of the 1,362 voters who were flagged showed proof of citizenship. The voter registrations of the other 1,202 people on the list were canceled because they didn’t respond to a “notice of examination” within the required 30 days, said Rivelino Lopez with the Dallas County Elections Department. He told us that the cancellations happened because the voters failed to meet the deadline and not because the county had proved independently that they were noncitizens.
Here we are again, almost three years after the botched voter purge that questioned the eligibility of nearly 100,000 Texas voters, at least a quarter of whom were soon determined to be citizens. That voter review didn’t get far before slamming into a series of lawsuits that the state had to pay $450,000 to settle, and it cost Secretary of State David Whitley his job.
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