by Frank Holmes, reporter
News outlets have branded Republican allegations that illegal aliens and other non-citizens are voting in U.S. elections “misinformation”—but a new report shows just how truthful the GOP’s complaints about election integrity have been.
The report comes from just one state, and the numbers are positive shocking.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced this week that, since he signed Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed 1.1 million ineligible voters from its rolls…and many of them are not even Americans.
“I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting,” said Gov. Abbott. “These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.”
In all, Abbott found 6,500 “noncitizens”—people in this country, legally or illegally, who have no right to vote in U.S. elections—enrolled as voters in Texas.
Worse yet, 1,930 non-citizens had already voted in some election in Texas.
Abbott turned all those names over to state Attorney General Ken Paxton for prosecution.
“Significant growth of the noncitizen population in Texas and a pattern of partisan efforts to illegally weaponize voter registration and the voting process to manipulate electoral outcomes have created urgent risks to local, state, and federal elections,” warned AG Paxton after the announcement.
The clean-up came due to state legislation, which gave officials until August 7 to maintain proper order of the voter rolls, assuring only legal citizens residing at their current Texas address remained eligible to vote in state elections.
“Any attempt to illegally cancel out legal ballots with fraud, vote harvesting, or other methods will be met with the full force of the law,” said Paxton.
Others Republicans in state government agreed. “Voting is a sacred right that must be preserved for citizens who qualify under our elections laws,” Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson told The Center Square. “My responsibility is to ensure free and fair elections and that only qualified voters participate.”
The election integrity breakthrough came despite hassles from national legacy media outlets, which desperately wanted the illegal voting scandal to be false.
“CNN and others in the media hive mind trashed us, stalked our volunteers, ambushed them in their homes (yes, you read that right),” said True the Vote, an election integrity watchdog. “That was no fun. But, it didn’t deter us or our volunteers.”
“Nationwide we helped challenge over 970,000 ineligible (voting) records,” said TTV.
“This is happening ONLY because voters have demanded it AND been willing to do the work themselves if necessary,” the group noted.
“Yes, this should happen automatically, no citizens shouldn’t have to engage. But unless and until our government shows sustained support of accurate voter rolls, we will be here, watching, reporting, and advocating. We will never quit.”
TEXAS!🚨 We are thrilled to see the announcement that Texas is REMOVING 1,000,000 ineligible names from the rolls. Virginia and Ohio have also recently made similar statements.
In Texas, TTV volunteers using IV3 challenged 225,702 ineligible records. @CNN and others in the… pic.twitter.com/CFnVC0M1RJ
— True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) August 26, 2024
To make matters worse, this isn’t the first time Texas has reported a massive number of non-citizens registering to vote—and thousands of non-citizens actually casting their ballots—in U.S. elections.
In 2019, Paxton announced that he was removing 95,000 non-citizens from Texan voting rolls…but it came too late for many elections.
Some 58,000 non-citizens had already voted in at least one election in Texas, he said.
Illegal aliens voting in U.S. elections isn’t a lone occurrence in the Lone Star State.
Tens of thousands of aliens managed to vote for candidates in the United States in spite of the fact that “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,” said Fox News at the time.
Thankfully, Texas Republicans are taking on a problem opposed by the vast majority of their fellow countrymen. An incredible 75 percent of Americans say only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections, according to new polls released by the Napolitan News Service.
87% say voters should have to show a photo ID when they show up at the polls to vote—a measure only 9% oppose.
But Americans have all but given up on the border, or our elections, ever being secure.
A majority of Americans, 54 percent, believe illegal aliens and non-citizens “will be allowed to vote in this year’s election.”
The problem could be eased with the SAVE Act, a bill before U.S. Congress that would require states to assure people registering to vote are legal U.S. citizens.
Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, has called on leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson to attach the bill to the continuing resolution legislators must pass to fund the administration and avert a government shutdown.
So far, Johnson has not said whether he will do so.
Until then, the attorney general nas unveiled a new email “hotline” that people can use to report illegal voting activity, including among those who are not citizens of the United States.
“Your political liberties and your representation in our government depend on secure elections. I will fight every step of the way to protect your vote and your voice,” said Paxton.
For once, the Obama administration was right about something: If you see something, say something.