Posted on 02/27/2019 4:59:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal judge is ordering officials in Texas to stop removing people from its voter registration rolls after declaring that the state has not seen widespread voter fraud.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery made the order in a Wednesday ruling, stating that Texas had made a "mess" after the secretary of state's office flagged about 95,000 individuals for a citizenship status review, according to NBC News.
Biery told officials from the 18 counties named as defendants that they could not remove people from the rolls without the court's approval. He also ordered acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley to advise officials in Texas's remaining 254 counties not to remove voters from their rolls without court approval.
“As Robert Fulghum taught in ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,’ always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes,” Biery said.
Biery condemned Whitley's failed attempt to identify ineligible voters, saying in his ruling that state officials' solution was “inherently paved with flawed results.”
"Perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state which did not politely ask for information but rather exemplifies the power of government to strike fear and anxiety and to intimidate the least powerful among us," Biery added.
Biery's ruling comes just over a month after Whitley's office announced that it had identified approximately 95,000 suspected ineligible voters. The office said at the time that 58,000 of those voters had cast a ballot in at least one election since 1996.
The announcement led President Trump to renew his claims about rampant voter fraud in the state.
But the secretary of state's office backtracked on the announcement after discovering that its original list wasn't vetted properly and included U.S. citizens, according to NBC News.
At the beginning of February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he did not plan to investigate the 58,000 people flagged by the secretary of state as possible non-citizen voters.
Whitley's office responded to the ruling by thanking the judge for acknowledging that "the list maintenance process was performed in good faith," according to The Associated Press.
Last month's announcement about suspected ineligible voters has thrown Whitley's confirmation into question. The AP noted that every Democratic state senator has come out against his nomination.
Probably true. It’s just *isolated* to liberal areas of the state.
I thought the purpose of maintaining voter rolls was to keep fraud from occurring--rather than trying to put Humpty together again after multiple elections have been stolen and the voters defrauded of representation. No one is harmed by having to prove his identity.
But Your Honor, if we have to play by your rules (which you may lack the authority to enforce) here's what follows: No armed guards or metal detectors around your courtroom until there's a proven problem of judges getting plinked while presiding. Do you want to be the casualty who establishes the need? I didn't think so.
We're in upstate NY, and we bounce people from the rolls all the time. For one thing, the Board of Elections sends every registered voter a piece of mail periodically, and if it starts coming back "moved" or "addressee unknown," you're gone.
Yes, the County is 70 percent GOP. And yet the Democratic election workers here are a pleasure to work with. When you have law and order instead of judicially mandated corruption, everyone is relaxed, friendly, and polite.
Texas Ping.
True Confessions of Texas Vote Harvesters
Nope, nothing there at all, right?
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You you really need a law degree to find out if it’s really happening?
Judge Biery doesn’t like “hard cases”!
Above The Law has some entertaining remarks about him.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/08/federal-judge-wants-ted-boutrous-to-make-out-with-plaintiffs-counsel-in-front-of-the-alamo-and-thats-not-necessarily-the-most-insane-part-of-this-order/
We’re going to need a bigger deck of cards.
*Democrat-Socialist Party is an unnecessary distinction.
>>>Apparently no state is free to put their voting system in order.
Well, this my be part of the reason why.
Keith Ingram, director of elections in the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, sent out an advisory Jan. 25 warning county election officials that more than 95,000 to 98,000 registered voters were believed to be noncitizens and that 58,000 of them had cast ballots in elections.
But he testified Monday that more than 25,000 people on the list were on there erroneously and are in fact U.S. citizens.
If AG Paxton has any spine, he will appeal this ruling all the way to the Supreme Court.
[But he testified Monday that more than 25,000 people on the list were on there erroneously and are in fact U.S. citizens.]
Yeah...and there are no illegal aliens in America.....
How long before Democrats argue vote fraud is a constitutional right?
ignore him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It occurs to me that during the previous Civil War, President Lincoln arrested a number of judges for sedition.
“He has made himself a high ranking officer in CW2.”
A war criminal.
“And yet the Democratic election workers here are a pleasure to work with. “
Don’t be lulled...if they are democrats they are mortal enemies.
That assumes that he is correct in his determination. He has already admitted to a 25% false positive rate from his initial estimate.
Texas responds by Seizing the Judges Personal Residence through eminent domain, using the Kelo decision as their Authority and turns it in to an Illegal Alien holding facility for Federal Authorities to apprehend the Illegal Aliens.
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