Texas sues Biden administration for not providing data on noncitizens
www.texastribune.org
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.
  • orclev@lemmy.world
    85·
    2 months ago

    They must be panicking because they’ve found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won’t buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as “these are the ones we found, there’s probably tens of thousands we haven’t!”, but I bet they’ve only been able to find less than a hundred so now they’re looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      I can’t imagine why an illegal immigrant would want to vote. The whole thing is ludicrous.

      • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        I know many citizens who think voting is ludicrous. The system is broken and it’s definitely not the fault of illegal immigrants.

    • MagicShelEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      I’ll bet they can’t find one illegally cast vote that was counted. People talk like it’s really uncommon. No, it’s so uncommon it never happens. I read some research that was done over a ten year period and they found less that 40 cases of vote fraud, almost none of which were for national office, and none of which had ever affected an outcome.

      Vote fraud in the US it’s effectively zero.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        with all this projection, some one should check Ted Cruz’s immigration status.

        Just saying. maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

        • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
          11·
          2 months ago

          maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

          Nope, fuck that, shoot him into the sun, we’ve got enough rightwing nutjobs in Canada.

          • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 months ago

            Strand him in an airport. Never to be released into either country. Always waiting for a flight to Cancun that keeps getting delayed forever.

          • P00ptart@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 months ago

            You sure? We could make it an “art” exhibit if we sent him there directly from Texas. We could even make it a symbol of peace like the statue of Liberty. Call it “the big splat” or something.

            • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 months ago

              Alright, if you can get a trebuchet built strong enough to fire him at least to the border from Texas, you may send him back…but only by trebuchet

          • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 months ago

            Aww, don’t you think PP needs a friend?

            Seriously, we don’t want him back. Totally agree, “One of these days Teddy, one of these days.To the sun.”

            • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 months ago

              I think we should pull a Simpsons and load both of em and all their little intolerant friends on a rocket and straight into the sun with em!

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      11·
      2 months ago

      They won’t be panicking. They made up the lie that non citizens are voting, they know it’s not true.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          I, for one, welcome the Republican scrutiny on voter fraud so that we can finally find and address the cases of Republican voter fraud.

          • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 months ago

            That would be funny to watch them realise in real time that they are the baddies they fear. Sadly I doubt it would last more than .0000000000001 of a second, team politics

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      They’re just in the phase of making bullshit requests and lawsuits without evidence so they can rile up the base about Biden being a party to voter fraud.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 months ago

    (my bold)

    The lawsuit escalates Paxton’s hunt for noncitizen voters just two weeks before the election and a day after early voting began in Texas. He has pressed Texas Secretary of State Janet Nelson to request that the federal government hand over data the state could use to cross-check its voter rolls.

    His timing is impeccable.

      • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
        4·
        2 months ago

        I think apathh is a huge part of how so many of our politicians get elected. Everyone knows who the top 2 candidates are for president but don’t have a clue when it comes to the local politicians who are directly impacting where they live. So much easier to vote down party lines.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Surprising restraint from Paxton. I half expected him to just pick everyone with a “Mexican sounding” name then assume they’re illegal.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 months ago

      He’ll still do that, but now he wants to courts to publicly say that it’s ok for him to do it.