From FoxNews:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that the state has discovered 95,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls going back to 1996, 58,000 of whom have voted in at least one Texas election — an announcement likely to raise fresh concerns about the prospect of voter fraud.
Texas has some of the toughest voter ID laws in the nation and has been one of the main battlegrounds in the Republican-led fight against alleged voter fraud. The office, in a statement, said that 33 people were prosecuted for voter fraud last year, and 97 were prosecuted between 2005-17. There are 16 million people in Texas registered to vote.
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Paxton said in a statement.
The New York Times reported that the findings were a result of of an 11-month investigation into records at the Texas Department of Public Safety. Gov. Greg Abbott praised the findings and hinted at future legislation to crack down on voter fraud.
The fact that 58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas raises the obvious question: How many other non-citizens have voted across the country? And we should also ask why Democrats are so resistant to weeding out voter fraud.
All citizens should consider election integrity to be sacrosanct, but it appears that Democrats have long ago abandoned any real effort to keep our elections clean. From resistance to voter-ID laws to opposing citizenship questions on census forms, it appears that Democrats want non-citizens to vote in order to help secure their electoral prospects.
Landslide elections are not affected, but tight races can be easily turned by illegal votes. All states should conduct similar investigations or confidence in our elections will be undermined. If the People cannot have confidence in the accuracy of election results, they cannot be expected to submit to whom they consider illegitimate leaders.
