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Extreme errors plague red state's effort to smoke out noncitizen voters: 'Staggering’
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks to the media at a press conference in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Hunt, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2025. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
Texas Built a Citizenship Dragnet and Caught Its Own Incompetence
The Numbers Betray the Crusade
Texas compared 18 million registered voters against a federal immigration database and labeled 2,724 people potential noncitizens. After further review, officials referred only 117 cases to the attorney general, while at least 578 flagged voters proved they were citizens. The state advised counties to restore any of those registrations…
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