Texas officials settled a lawsuit over a search for ineligible voters that resulted in the U.S. citizenship of thousands of people being wrongly questioned.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley said the settlement of the lawsuit over the state's bungled search for non-citizens in its voter rolls ensures the same mistakes won't happen again.
Texas officials announced Friday that they had settled a lawsuit over a bungled search for ineligible voters that President Trump stoked over Twitter, but that resulted in the U.S. citizenship of thousands of people being wrongly called into question.The agreement officially ends a botched scouring of Texas voter rolls that began in January and was beset by deeply flawed data.
The problems with the list were discovered within days, but not before Trump seized on the reports out of Texas to renew his unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud in the U.S. It made for another volatile chapter in Texas’ voting battles that have simmered for a decade. Those have included federal judges finding racial discrimination in voting maps andcreated by Republicans, though the state later prevailed on appeals. In February, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery of San Antonio called Texas’ search for non-citizen voters “a solution looking for a problem” and said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
The settlement requires Texas to change how it investigates voter citizenship and pay $450,000 in fees to civil rights groups that brought the lawsuit.
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