Civil rights groups on Monday called on top election officials in Texas to back down from an effort to identify and purge a list of nearly 100,000 people registered to vote who may not be U.S. citizens.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley sent an advisory on Friday stating that around 58,000 of the people flagged for review voted in at least one Texas election between 1996 and 2018.
“With this new advisory, Texas officials have taken another page straight out of the voter suppression handbook,” Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said in a statement. “The ‘investigation’ outlined by the Secretary of State is woefully inadequate and risks purging thousands of eligible Texans from the voting rolls.
“The advisory is another attempt from state officials to drum up support for a radical anti-voter agenda in the current Legislative session and in other states with like-minded officials. With such irresponsible assertions now in the public, we call on the Secretary of State to immediately rescind this advisory.”
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