Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the federal government of failing to provide citizenship data for registered voters, even as he acknowledged that the vast majority of the people on the rolls are lawful voters.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republicans have repeatedly raised and used unsubstantiated concerns about noncitizen voting to cast doubt on the integrity of elections.sued the Biden administration on Tuesday, accusing the federal government of failing to help Texas check the citizenship status of some of the state’s registered voters — even as Paxton conceded that noncitizen voting is illegal and extremely rare.
“The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program is the most secure and efficient way to reliably verify an individual’s citizenship or immigration status, including for verification regarding voter registration and/or voter list maintenance,” the agency’s director, Ur M. Jaddou, wrote to Nelson, adding that the agency “currently cannot offer an alternative process to any state.
Nelson then shared the voter records for anyone who does not have a Texas driver’s license or identification card number on file in its statewide voter registration system. She warned explicitly that the records “do not reflect, and are in no way indicative of, a list of potential non-United States citizens on the State’s voter rolls.”
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