For some time conservatives have been waging a war against voter fraud, even though it's something that rarely occurs.
"A researcher at Loyola University in Los Angeles reviewed a billion ballots and found 31 cases of voter impersonation," notes NBC, "while an Arizona State University study found 10 cases in a review of a decade of ballots."
The real purpose for this war is to prevent people from voting who would likely vote for the Democratic Party, considering the fact that the Republican Party which has been an oligarchic party for some time, is rapidly becoming a white nationalist party.
The best example of conservative dirty tricks came in the race for Georgia's governorship, in which the Secretary of State had spent his tenure in that official position purging African Americans, and other minorities from voting in the governor's race that he was participating in.
With examples as seen in Georgia so apparent, it's clear that the Republican Party has chosen to make it harder for minorities to participate in democracy, over having a platform that is more inclusive.
One such state that is looking to purge voters is Texas, and it makes sense. As the Republican Party continues to support people like Donald Trump, the Democratic Party is only going to gain more support from Latino community.
Republicans know that if the Democratic Party can successfully get a large portion of the Latino population voting for Democrats, the party could take over a traditional red state which would obviously have major consequences for the Republican Party.
Again, instead of choosing inclusion, the party has chosen disenfranchisement, and preventing people from participating in the most basic but fundamental aspect of a functioning democracy, the right to vote.
After Republican officials in Texas claimed that roughly 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote, 58,000 of whom had voted, Charlie Kirk was quick to go to Twitter about it:
First of all, the 58,000 is the amount of people who voted between 1996 through the recent midterms in 2018.
Nevertheless, it's starting to look as I had suspected the moment I saw Kirk's tweet. This ordeal is likely bullshit that people from the Hispanic community are going to have to go through to keep their right to vote as the Republican Party sets out to purge them, and it's why various civil rights groups have either sued the state after officials made this original claim, or noted that Texas Republicans are attempting to create voting laws that would violate federal law.
The Texas Tribune notes a possible reason for Texas officials to think non-citizens voted:
"It’s possible other voters on the list have become naturalized citizens since they obtained their driver’s licenses or ID cards — a point election administrators throughout the state made Monday as they began parsing through the list of voters sent to each county. Legal permanent residents, also known as green card holders, who become naturalized citizens after obtaining driver’s licenses are not required to update DPS on their citizenship status, according to voting rights lawyers. More than 30,000 immigrants in Texas were approved to become naturalized citizens in the first half of 2018. More than 52,000 were approved in 2017."
In other words, people legally allowed to vote probably haven't updated documentations that makes them American citizens.
Today the Texas Tribune is reporting that state county officials are quietly saying the numbers that the amount of voters flagged incorrectly is "substantial."
This mistake per the Texas Tribune:
After flagging tens of thousands of registered voters for citizenship reviews, the Texas secretary of state’s office is now telling counties that some of those voters don’t belong on the lists it sent out.
Officials in five large counties — Harris, Travis, Fort Bend, Collin and Williamson — told The Texas Tribune they had received calls Tuesday from the secretary of state’s office indicating that some of the voters whose citizenship status the state said counties should consider checking should not actually be on those lists.
"The secretary of state’s office incorrectly included some voters who had submitted their voting registration applications at Texas Department of Public Safety offices, according to county officials. Now, the secretary of state is instructing counties to remove them from the list of flagged voters.
“We’re going to proceed very carefully," said Douglas Ray, a special assistant county attorney in Harris County, where 29,822 voters were initially flagged by the state. A "substantial number" of them are now being marked as citizens, Ray said.
Charlie, your party is dying. To win you need to purge voters.
I have one word for Charlie, and I tweeted it to him:
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