[RitaOK]

FYI..

Maria Bartiromo, FOXNews, is catching undo heat for posting a story on X, concerning illegals being registered to vote outside of a TEXAS DVM location, where inside voter registration is always available, statewide.

Maria’s source, she said, was reportedly a friend who witnessed the line.

TX leftist newsers are trying to start a field day against Bartiromo.

In defense of Maria, I wanted to offer this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-ag-investigates-if-noncitizens-are-being-registered-to-vote-including-outside-dps-offices/ar-AA1pcWbn?cvid=9e799ada04ee41aec965531c35518132&ei=12

” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into claims of nonprofit organizations registering noncitizens to vote in the state.

“Texans are deeply troubled by the possibility that organizations purporting to assist with voter registration are illegally registering noncitizens to vote in our elections,” Paxton said in a press release on Wednesday.

“If eligible citizens can legally register to vote when conducting their business at a DPS office, why would they need a second opportunity to register with a booth outside?”

” The announcement follows a report of a “massive line of immigrants” being registered to vote outside a “DMV” office in Weatherford by Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo, who posted the claim on X on Sunday morning and later repeated it on television.
The AG’s press release does not mention Bartiromo’s post.

The source for Bartiromo’s report appears to be the wife of a friend of a friend.

The Star-Telegram followed up on the claim on Monday, visiting the Driver License office in Weatherford — which is run by the Department of Public Safety, not Motor Vehicles — and observed no such registration activities taking place.

A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A DPS spokesperson told the Star-Telegram that the story was not true and that the assumption that nonwhite people waiting in line to get driver licenses was “kind of racist.”

He confirmed that a group was registering people to vote outside a DPS office in Lake Worth the previous week, but not at the other sites mentioned in Bartiromo’s post.
The spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the AG’s investigation.

Brady Gray, Republican party chair in Parker County, said in a post on X Monday evening that the party had “spent the last 24 hours investigating the claims” and could not verify them.

But on Wednesday Gray said in a post on X that people trying to apply his statement to Texas as a whole, were “zealots.”

He told the Star-Telegram that his party’s investigation only applied to Parker County and that the Texas AG’s Office has far more resources than his organization.

“To make a leap from that to suggest that that somehow refutes any claims anywhere in the state is a pretty ridiculous and frankly irresponsible thing for anybody to do,” he said.

Gray said he believes Paxton had more to go on when opening the investigation than a friend’s friend’s wife’s story.

“I have no information on that, but I would not assume out of the gate that the only thing the Attorney General has is a claim from a Fox News host,” he said.

Paxton’s office “has already confirmed that various nonprofit organizations” have been engaging in this activity, the press release states.

The AG’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry into which organizations it had identified and how many such cases had been confirmed.

Paxton’s comment that a voter registration tent outside a DPS office would be unnecessary is not entirely accurate, according to Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, which works to expand voting rights in the state.

“DPS is not a well-oiled machine known for doing their job really, really well in Texas,” he said, adding that one of those things is asking people if they want to register to vote.

“The idea that organizations doing voter registration outside DPS are doing something wrong is just faulty on its face,” Gutierrez said. “They’re just registering people to vote where they think people are who may not be registered.”

What safeguards are in place?
A person from an organization registering people to vote would be a volunteer deputy registrar who is not allowed to “determine if the applicant is actually qualified to register to vote,” according to the Texas Secretary of State’s website.

The Star-Telegram contacted the Secretary of State to ask about the feasibility of noncitizens registering to vote in Texas.

A spokesperson directed the paper to an Aug. 12 press release in which Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said, “The State of Texas uses safeguards and checks against noncitizen voting, which is illegal under state law.”

A bill that Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law last year makes noncitizen voting a second-degree felony, and another he signed in 2021 “created additional election integrity measures including ongoing citizenship checks of Texas voter rolls and ID requirements for mail-in ballots.”

The SOS regularly checks voter registration lists with DPS information on noncitizens and also compares them to lists of people who have been barred from jury duty for lack of citizenship, according to the press release, which is titled, “Texas Leads the Way Against Noncitizen Voting.”

“Texans can challenge a person’s voter registration based on citizenship, leading to a hearing and cancellation of the registration if the person is not a citizen. And another law Abbott signed in 2021 allows the SOS to withhold funds from counties that do not remove noncitizens from its voting rolls..

“Texans must also present a valid ID at a polling station in order to vote on election day, according to another SOS website.

“Tarrant County formed an Election Integrity Task Force in February 2023. The unit comprised of sheriff’s office investigators and district attorney prosecutors has investigated 12 cases since then. It has prosecuted zero. “

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This column is a Big Media product, as the conservative media has not kicked in on the fresh controversy Maria’s post.
Rita

[stars & stripes forever]

Tonight is Tim Walz's big night. So, here's a little refresher on what we've learned about him just these last two weeks:

• Tim Walz abandoned his National Guard unit like a coward when he learned they were going to Iraq. His fellow unit members have denounced him. Later, Walz lied about the rank he held and falsely said he “carried weapons in war” despite never going within a thousand miles of a combat zone.
• Tim Walz signed a law that lets Minnesota courts take children away from their parents for the sake of subjecting them to radical sex change surgeries.
• Tim Walz created a government hotline to snitch on neighbors who didn’t practice enough “social distancing” during Covid. Even while he banned people from going to church or attending funerals, Walz copied Andrew Cuomo’s policy of sending sick people into nursing homes, which caused huge numbers of deaths.
• Tim Walz practiced race-based discrimination in rationing Covid treatments in 2021. White people were given lower priority for treatment, purely based on skin color, according to Walz’s policies.
• Tim Walz said that his “core values” are DEI, and upon taking office vowed to “double down” to “operationalize equity.”
• Tim Walz gave free health care, college tuition, and driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
• When the mayor of Minneapolis begged Tim Walz to call out the National Guard to contain the George Floyd riots, Walz refused to do anything for 20 hours. That delay allowed BLM radicals to burn down the Third Precinct police station. Walz let his daughter leak Guard's deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot and terrorize the city with impunity
• Tim Walz literally doubled Minnesota’s murder rate in just three years.
• Tim Walz presided over the single biggest fraud case of the Covid period, letting Somali immigrants plunder more than $250 million through the Feeding our Future scam.
• Walz created a sweeping race-based quota system throughout the Minnesota state health department.
• Tim Walz drove drunk, blew a .128, pleaded guilty, then spent decades lying about it, saying he actually flunked a field sobriety test due to “deafness.”
• Tim Walz signed a law not only making abortion legal up to the moment of birth but removing any requirement to care for infants born alive from botched abortions. In Minnesota, babies born alive after a botched abortion can be left to die or actively killed, and no law is broken.
• Tim Walz’s education department is imposing a new state social studies curriculum centered on Critical Race Theory buzzwords like “Identity,” “Resistance,” and “Ways of Knowing.”
• Tim Walz wants to roll back the First Amendment in order to criminalize speech he considers “misinformation” about “our democracy.”
• Tim Walz pointlessly lied about using IVF so that he could make a dishonest attack on President Trump and JD Vance.
• Tim Walz put tampons into boys’ bathrooms.

  The DNC will put on a ridiculous show of Walz as a folky, middle-American moderate tonight. It’s a lie.

  Walz would be the second-most radical person ever elected vice president – second-most, because first place goes to the person at the top of the ticket he’s running on.

  Let’s make this go viral and ruin his night.

  CREDIT: @charliekirk11