Thread: 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, investigation finds

Breaking: 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half have voted in one or more elections since 1996, according to officials.



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95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, investigation finds

95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, state officials discover Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.

Author: Ryan Osborne
Published: 3:51 PM CST January 25, 2019
Updated: 4:57 PM CST January 25, 2019

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About 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half of those have cast ballots in at least one election, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday.

Whitley's office, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been investigating possible voter fraud for the last year, according to a news release.
Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.
The Secretary of State's office found those numbers by collecting current DPS data of people who have applied for a driver's license or state identification card in the last five years with a green card of visa. The investigators then cross-referenced that data with people who are registered to vote.
The Secretary of State's office sent the information to the state attorney general's office, which will decide whether to pursue voter fraud charges. The attorney general's office has prosecuted 130 cases of voter fraud since 2005.
In August, WFAA reported that hundreds of non-citizens had been discovered as registered voters and that the secretary of state's office was working to improve its voter database to determine the exact number of non-citizens registered.


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This is how red states turn toward blue. Clean up the mess, identify the criminals, prosecute, deport. Legal or illegal, they should not be here participating in illegal activity. Democrats turn a blind eye so while republicans get a say and can do something, they best get at it.

Drivers licenses will lead to more fraud in voting.

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Illegal immigrant voted using fake ID, report says

Illegal Immigrants
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By Dom Calicchio | Fox News



Enrique Salazar Ortiz, 63, of Elmendorf, Texas, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, authorities say. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)

An illegal immigrant living in Texas who used a stolen ID to vote at his local polling place received a prison sentence Thursday, according to reports.
The suspect, identified as Enrique Salazar Ortiz, of Elmendorf, near San Antonio, will serve nearly three years.
Salazar Ortiz, a native of Mexico, was convicted of making a false statement on a passport application, unlawful voting by an undocumented immigrant and aggravated identity theft, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
VOTER FRAUD EXISTS -- EVEN THOUGH MANY IN THE MEDIA CLAIM IT DOESN'T
The defendant used the name Jesse H. Vargas Jr. when voting in the 2016 election, a report said, although it was unclear how many other times he may have voted illegally.
Authorities said a man with Vargas’ name and birth date had left the area as a teenager, when the now-57-year-old man's family moved to California. But despite that, someone has used Vargas’ ID to vote in local elections “since at least 1994,” Bexar County elections administrator Jacque Callanen told the Express-News.
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A public defender told U.S. District Judge Fred Biery that three other men had used the Vargas identity over the years. She said Salazar Ortiz began using the name several years back after buying a birth certificate from a man in a bar for $20.
His fake ID was detected by the State Department in December 2016 when he mailed in a passport application, the newspaper reported, adding that he was arrested during a raid at his home in August 2017.

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58,000 Non-Citizens Voted In Texas State Elections, 95,000 Registered According To Attorney General



"Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice"

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According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, the Texas Department of Public Safety has identified 58,000 non-US citizens who have voted in at least one Texas election since 1996, reports NBCDFW.


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What's more, 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas according to the DPS.
"Texas law allows lawfully present noncitizens to obtain driver’s licenses by showing proof of lawful presence to DPS," said Paxton's office in a statement. "However, only citizens are eligible to vote. And Texas law currently does not require verification of a voter’s statement that they are a citizen."

The Texas Secretary of State this week provided the information to Paxton's office, which can prosecute election crimes.
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice," Paxton said in a statement. "My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed."
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott praised the findings, which officials said were the result of voter rolls being checked against a state database of Texas residents who are not citizens but leally obtained driver's licenses.
"I support prosecution where appropriate. The State will work on legislation to safeguard against these illegal practices," Abbott tweeted. -NBCDFW

The Texas Secretary of State's office is "very confident" that the information they received is current, according to spokesman Sam Taylor - however a voting rights group immediately questioned its accuracy.
Democratic lawmakers in the Lone Star State have urged caution "because we have consistently seen Texas politicians conjure the specter of voter fraud as pretext to suppress legitimate votes, we are naturally skeptical," according to Dallas state Rep. Rafael Anchia.
Paxton mentioned three recent voter fraud convictions in his statement, adding "Nothing is more vital to preserving our Constitution than the integrity of our voting process, and my office will do everything within its abilities to solidify trust in every election in the state of Texas. I applaud Secretary of State Whitley for his proactive work in safeguarding our elections."
Between 2005 and 2017, 97 people were prosecuted for numerous voter fraud violations according to Paxton's office.
"In 2018, Paxton’s Election Fraud Unit – with assistance from a criminal justice grant from the governor’s office – prosecuted 33 defendants for a total of 97 election fraud violations. Last February, the attorney general announced a significant voter fraud initiative and addressed key problems and policy areas related to election law," according to NBCDFW.

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this is insane and people are letting this happen ... that means 58,000 Americans votes got zero'd out; cancelled. This equates to a coup détat



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58,000 Non-U.S. Citizens Voted in Texas State Elections: AG
The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified 58,000 non-U.S.…

Texas finds 95,000 non-citizen registrations and 58,000 illegal votes. Imagine California...

Every illegally cast ballot by a foreigner cancels out the vote of an American citizen. Why Democrats don't care about that is worth looking at a bit more closely.

January 26, 2019
By Monica Showalter

Democrats and their press allies are always yelling about voter fraud being a miniscule "actually very rare," practically non-existent thing, a figment of fevered conservative imaginations. But state election officials in Texas have uncovered a whopping 95,000 illegal voter registrations from non-citizens, with more than half - 58,000 - actually casting ballots. Seems the problem is bigger than was imagined, even -- on the right. The story is being covered by the mainstream press. WFAA, a big Texas radio station, had this:

About 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half of those have cast ballots in at least one election, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday.
Whitley's office, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been investigating possible voter fraud for the last year, according to a news release.
Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.
The Secretary of State's office found those numbers by collecting current DPS data of people who have applied for a driver's license or state identification card in the last five years with a green card of visa. The investigators then cross-referenced that data with people who are registered to vote.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had this, NBC News had this. Dallas Morning News had this.
Which pretty well puts paid to the Democratic 'talking point' about voter fraud being a non-issue. Actually, this finding, from Texas officials very determined to clean up their voter rolls, is a very big issue. Every ballot cast by a foreigner in the election cancels out the vote of an American citizen. When the elections are close, that's quite a disenfranchisement.
According to the Star-Telegram, citing a Texas official:

“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a prepared statement. “My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed.”

He's right. With elections increasingly close, the prospect of foreigners determining the outcome is a rather amazing sort of imperialism against Americans from abroad. And they are getting away with it, they've been getting away with it for more than two decades, as this study showed.
What else can we say about this? It exposes the Democrats and their abnormal obsession with keeping voter rolls unaudited, for the beneficiaries of non-citizens voting. Texas is a red state and red states have no stake in winning illegal votes, which go largely to Democrats. No wonder they yell about these revelations, which they are doing this time, but it's a pretty big tide they're protesting.
California, by contrast, is a solid blue one-party state, coinciding with its initiation of vast benefit packages for illegal immigrants. Not surprisingly, the state houses a quarter of the nation's illegal immigrants. And surprise, surprise, it leads the nation in resistence to voter roll audits, claiming illegal immigrants wouldn't dream of voting illegally here after they crossed into the U.S. illegally. California, which had to be sued into cleaning up its voter rolls, and not completely, continues to resist any effort to maintain the integrity of its vote.
Well, the Texas audit does signal there's a problem. And since Democrats cannot spin this away, though they are trying to by saying maybe all the non-citizen voters became citizens in the interim, they are mostly likely going to try to ignore this away and say it was done by Republicans.
One can only hope it won't work this time, because they've got big plans to make all of the nation's election laws exactly like California's. This is the death of democracy. Venezuela went this route, its failure wasn't just socialism imposed in one swoop, it started with voter fraud. All the more reason to make this report from Texas a major narrative shift in the national conversation.
Correction: The original figure for registrations has been corrected,

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James Woods Calls Out ‘Spineless’ Congress for Not Tackling Voter Fraud: Two-time Academy Award-winning actor and outspoken conservative James Woods is one of many people upset over new reports surfacing about the extent of voter fraud in states like Texas.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to share some of the shocking numbers found in a new report about voter fraud in Texas — and Woods responded with shared rage.
“58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg.”
“All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID!” tweeted the president after the report was covered on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 27, 2019
Woods — who sports over 1.9 million followers — responded by blaming Republicans in Congress for not standing by the president and tackling this issue while they could through legislation.
“Imagine, if you will, a time when the @GOP could hold the presidency and the Congress. Well, we did, of course, for the past two years. Sadly, our Congress was too spineless to stand by you, Mr. President. This could have been corrected by legislation,” tweeted the “Videodrome” and “Shark” star.
Imagine, if you will, a time when the @GOP could hold the Presidency and the Congress. Well, we did, of course, for the past two years. Sadly our Congress was too spineless to stand by you, Mr. President. This could have been corrected by legislation. #DemocratVoterFraud https://t.co/hRsdn6zXdy
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 29, 2019
Woods has been an outspoken supporter of the president’s on Twitter for quite some time now.
He even recently received a much deserved shoutout from the president for that support.
While Woods was using his voice to highlight the serious issue of voter fraud, other Hollywood stars were busy having a collective meltdown over former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s announcement that he may run for president as an independent in 2020.
If he does so, many of Trump’s Hollywood critics seem to fear the election will be tipped in favor of Trump.
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James Woods Calls Out 'Spineless' Congress for Not Tackling Voter Fraud

Non-citizens can now vote in several towns and cities in MD.

Move to a new section for Noncitizen and illegal immigrant voter documentation.