The Texas elections chief who questioned the citizenship of nearly 100,000 people resigned on Monday ahead of being forced out of office.
AUSTIN, Texas — The embattled Texas elections chief who questioned the citizenship of nearly 100,000 people resigned on Monday ahead of being forced out of office.
Republicans in gun-friendly Texas even quietly went around the National Rifle Association before going home, setting up a test for Abbott on whether he will veto a $1 million public safety campaign for gun storage. But Whitley's fate had appeared all but sealed for months. Democrats blocked a vote on his nomination after Whitley's office led a botched scouring of voter rolls in January that misidentified scores of people as non-citizens, set off questions from Congress and led to the state settling a federal lawsuit.
But the data used was deeply flawed and, within days, Whitley's office began walking back the numbers. The ensuing uproar threatened to cause another heated legislative session on the heels of passing some of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, immigration crackdowns and a failed effort in 2017 to pass a"bathroom bill" targeting transgender people.
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