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Thu Feb 28, 2019, 01:59 PM Feb 2019

Texas Election Chief's Nomination Advances Amid Bogus Voter List Uproar

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Associated Press
February 28, 2019 12:35 pm

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The nomination of Texas’ embattled secretary of state is advancing a day after a federal judge blamed him for wrongly questioning the U.S. citizenship of tens of thousands of voters.

A Senate committee voted 4-3 along party lines Thursday to send Secretary of State David Whitley’s nomination to the full chamber. But Democrats have signaled they have enough votes to ultimately reject Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s choice for chief Texas elections officer.

Whitley’s future has been in jeopardy since his office released a deeply flawed list of 98,000 registered voters identified as potential non-citizens. The list stoked Republican claims of potential voter fraud but failed to exclude scores of naturalized U.S. citizens.

A federal judge Wednesday ruled that Whitley “created this mess” and blocked the removal of any registered voters.


Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-committee-advances-texas-secretary-of-state-nomination



You know you just gotta ask, there was "Election Fraud" in North Carolina by republicans, and now Texas has this stuff going on, or is it my imagination that it's always being done by republicans.........................I think so, and its not my imagination..................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................
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