Review shows illegal immigrants likely voted
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 Review shows illegal immigrants likely voted (5:20 p.m.)
Times wire report
Article Launched: 06/09/2007 05:50:22 PM MDT
SAN ANOTNIO -- Federal and local authorities have launched
investigations after a Bexar County elections official reported dozens
of non-U.S. citizens voted in recent elections.
A report by Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen
included the names of 330 non-citizens on the voter rolls. Those named
had received jury duty summonses but told the court they weren't
eligible to serve because they were not U.S. citizens.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland
Security, requested Callanen's report in an administrative subpoena.
And the Bexar County district attorney's office is investigating
whether up to 41 of those non-citizens voted in more than a dozen
local, state and federal elections since 2001.
"You bet your bottom dollar we'll prosecute ... if we find people voted
illegally in violation of the state election code," Bexar County
District Attorney Susan Reed said.
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Democrats, Republicans, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
The 330 names have since been removed from voter rolls, Callanen said.
Investigators with ICE are trying to locate and interview those named.
ICE is looking into false citizenship claims, said agency spokeswoman
Nina Pruneda.
Federal authorities also requested similar voter data from election
officials in Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties, Callanen said. But
Pruneda, the ICE spokeswoman, declined to discuss the scope of the
federal inquiry.
It wasn't immediately apparent if the questionable voting influenced the outcome of an election, Callanen said.
A bill to require voters to show photo identification or two other
forms of ID before casting ballots died in the state Senate without a
vote.
Democrats claimed the identification requirements would suppress poor
and minority voters and vowed to filibuster the bill -- and threaten
other bills -- if it ever came up.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and other Republicans argued the measure is
needed to combat voter fraud. It had already passed the House.
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