Texas settles lawsuit over bungled search for illegal votes

[struggle4progress]

BY PAUL J. WEBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted Apr 26, 2019 1:22 pm PDT

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has settled a federal lawsuit over the state’s bungled search for non-citizens among the state’s 16 million registered voters.

The agreement announced Friday ends an effort by Texas elections officials that led to the state wrongly questioning the U.S. citizenship of tens of thousands of voters.

Texas will also pay $450,000 to civil rights groups that sued after the state announced in January that it had identified nearly 100,000 people who were potentially ineligible to vote.

President Donald Trump seized on the reports out of Texas to renew his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud ...

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/04/26/texas-settles-lawsuit-over-bungled-search-for-illegal-votes/

[riversedge]

1. #DerangedDonald was barking up the wrong tree......

President Donald Trump seized on the reports out of Texas to renew his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud ...

[DFW]

2. Unfortunately, our Governor, LG and AG are thoroughly corrupt right wing sleaze

They don't care what's true or legal. They worship only the twin Republican gods on money and power.

[marble falls]

3. Now we need to look into this as an attempt of out and out voter suppression. They committed ...

the voter fraud.

[Lonestarblue]

4. The media will not spend as much time on the settlement as on the original report.

The lie of voter fraud got a lot of attention, and that’s what will live in many people’s minds rather than the settlement that found the Texas Acting Secretary of State to have acted in error. I am so tired of Republicans rigging the system to benefit themselves and hurting so many people deliberately. If I didn’t live in a blue city, I don’t think I could live in this state. The state government is a bunch of wackadoos.