The state is keeping the list of voters it’s reviewing secret, but county elections offices are supposed to tell individuals if they are on the list.
Texas Voting Rights
Whether it’s a botched voter citizenship review, legal battles over how the state draws its political maps, or the efforts to remove barriers to casting ballots, voting rights issues are the source of constant debate in Texas. Read The Texas Tribune’s comprehensive coverage of voting rights issues and tell us if you’ve encountered problems while trying to vote in Texas.
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Federal judge directs more counties to halt voter citizenship review efforts as lawsuits proceed
After state officials conceded that at least a quarter of a list of nearly 100,000 Texas voters flagged for citizenship review should never have been questioned, a federal judge said, “I wish all of this could’ve been done back as the original effort.”
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“This relationship is in tatters”: How Texas’ voter citizenship review frayed its relationship with local officials
A breakdown in communication has emerged between the state’s top election officials and county election offices since the citizenship review effort launched four weeks ago.
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Eight Texas counties agree to halt voter citizenship reviews while lawsuits proceed
The counties sent certain voters letters demanding that they prove their citizenship after they were flagged by the secretary of state’s office.
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Opposition to Texas Secretary of State David Whitley’s nomination mounts, imperiling his future in the job
For the second week in a row, the Senate Nominations Committee failed to bring Whitley up for a vote. And he’s gained a new public adversary: the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
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State lawyers defend handling of Texas voter citizenship review, suggest some county officials broke the law
An assistant attorney general said counties should have reviewed their lists of flagged voters to determine whether they had reason to believe the voters were ineligible before requiring them to prove their citizenship.
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Texas secretary of state apologizes for how he rolled out voter citizenship review. But he still supports the effort.
In a letter sent to lawmakers late Wednesday, David Whitley said he’s sorry for the way he launched the review efforts but appeared not to be backing down from continuing the review.
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The AG’s office told lawmakers it isn’t investigating voters on Texas’ citizenship review list. It told a local official the opposite.
A Paxton deputy told a Guadalupe County official Feb. 1 that the attorney general’s office “has pending criminal investigations related to these issues.”
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Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office hasn’t launched criminal investigations of voters flagged for citizenship review
Some lawmakers had fretted that sending the preliminary, faulty list to the state’s top prosecutor would intimidate voters.
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Texas Secretary of State David Whitley defends releasing flawed data about voter citizenship review
At his confirmation hearing, Whitley faced tough questioning from Democrats over his decision to erroneously question the citizenship status of tens of thousands of voters.