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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3925785" data-attributes="member: 48469">Looks true to me. Lefty sources are reporting the same. Newsweek ends its article on it by trying to downplay the potentially 58,000 non citizens who may have voted:<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/texas-finds-95000-non-citizens-registered-vote-encourages-local-election-1306592?amp=1" target="_blank">Texas finds 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote, encourages local election officials to check into voter fraud</a>“Texas has approximately 16 million registered voters, over 8.3 million voted in the Texas governor&#039;s race in 2018. Therefore, if all 58,000 cast a ballot in the 2018 election, it would account for 0.69% of voters. Abbott won the governor&#039;s seat by 13.3%.”From the NYT:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/noncitizens-voting-texas.html" target="_blank">Texas Secretary of State Questions Citizenship of 95,000 Registered Voters</a>“But Democrats and voting rights advocates were skeptical of the state’s claims. More than <a href="https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/70-92.shtml" target="_blank">8.3 million people voted</a> in the Texas governor’s race last year, which means that even if all 58,000 people who voted were, in fact, found to be noncitizens and voted in 2018 — a claim that no state official has made — they would have amounted to only 0.69 percent of all votes that were cast.”Ridiculous. Can we all agree that if true, this is absolutely unacceptable?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3925785, member: 48469"] Looks true to me. Lefty sources are reporting the same. Newsweek ends its article on it by trying to downplay the potentially 58,000 non citizens who may have voted: [URL="https://www.newsweek.com/texas-finds-95000-non-citizens-registered-vote-encourages-local-election-1306592?amp=1"]Texas finds 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote, encourages local election officials to check into voter fraud[/URL] “Texas has approximately 16 million registered voters, over 8.3 million voted in the Texas governor's race in 2018. Therefore, if all 58,000 cast a ballot in the 2018 election, it would account for 0.69% of voters. Abbott won the governor's seat by 13.3%.” From the NYT: [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/noncitizens-voting-texas.html"]Texas Secretary of State Questions Citizenship of 95,000 Registered Voters[/URL] “But Democrats and voting rights advocates were skeptical of the state’s claims. More than [URL='https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/70-92.shtml']8.3 million people voted[/URL] in the Texas governor’s race last year, which means that even if all 58,000 people who voted were, in fact, found to be noncitizens and voted in 2018 — a claim that no state official has made — they would have amounted to only 0.69 percent of all votes that were cast.” Ridiculous. Can we all agree that if true, this is absolutely unacceptable? [/QUOTE]

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