As a result, apparently no one is now investigating the extent of voting in Texas by noncitizens, who can qualify for a host of government services.
Voting rights groups were soon suing the state, and on February 27, U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery in the Western District of Texas, issued a folksy decision quoting Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" and chastising the state for creating "a solution looking for a problem." Biery, a 72-year-old Bill Clinton appointee based in San Antonio, ordered the state to stop sending the letters and directed county clerks to stop removing voters from the rolls.
In 2012, Florida tried to match Division of Motor Vehicles data with voter rolls and initially claimed to have found 180,000 questionable registrations as a result.
Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News via AP. The state eventually hired an outside expert to come up with a list of Pennsylvania noncitizen residents who might be illegally registered to vote.
"We've done three noncitizen cases in the past year. ... They shouldn't have been voting and they were voting. We believe there are more of those," Jeff Mateer, the first assistant attorney general of Texas, tells RealClearInvestigations.
As of last year San Francisco is allowing noncitizen voting in local elections, though public polling shows Americans are broadly opposed to the idea.
Ultimately, Mateer says, the lesson from the Texas debacle is not that there's no cause to believe noncitizens aren't voting - it's that people need more information to determine what's going on.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/06/04/policing_noncitizen_voting_what_we_have_here_is_a_failure_of_data.html
Voting rights groups were soon suing the state, and on February 27, U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery in the Western District of Texas, issued a folksy decision quoting Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" and chastising the state for creating "a solution looking for a problem." Biery, a 72-year-old Bill Clinton appointee based in San Antonio, ordered the state to stop sending the letters and directed county clerks to stop removing voters from the rolls.
In 2012, Florida tried to match Division of Motor Vehicles data with voter rolls and initially claimed to have found 180,000 questionable registrations as a result.
Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News via AP. The state eventually hired an outside expert to come up with a list of Pennsylvania noncitizen residents who might be illegally registered to vote.
"We've done three noncitizen cases in the past year. ... They shouldn't have been voting and they were voting. We believe there are more of those," Jeff Mateer, the first assistant attorney general of Texas, tells RealClearInvestigations.
As of last year San Francisco is allowing noncitizen voting in local elections, though public polling shows Americans are broadly opposed to the idea.
Ultimately, Mateer says, the lesson from the Texas debacle is not that there's no cause to believe noncitizens aren't voting - it's that people need more information to determine what's going on.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/06/04/policing_noncitizen_voting_what_we_have_here_is_a_failure_of_data.html
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