Posted on 05/28/2019 1:13:32 PM PDT by Coronal
AUSTIN — Interim Secretary of State David Whitley - who oversaw a botched investigation that questioned the citizenship of nearly 100,000 Texas voters - is officially out of a job.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Whitley, a former top aide, to the position in December after the previous secretary of state resigned. But just before lawmakers finished the 2019 session Monday afternoon without confirming him, the embattled elections chief resigned "effective immediately."
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Some folks here are wondering how questioning citizenship can be botched.
If you are a citizen, it’s pretty easy to answer.
But we who don’t live there may be missing a piece of the puzzle.
Any who know, thanks.
Whitley’s office early this year launched a botched review of the state’s voter rolls,
saying officials had discovered as many as 95,000 noncitizens registered to vote
and sending lists of names to county elections officials for review and purge.
Within days, the secretary of state’s office backtracked on the announcement
after discovering that its original list was not properly vetted and included
thousands of citizens.
Whitley was facing a Monday deadline to be confirmed by the Texas Senate or
lose his job. The letter was sent shortly before the state Senate adjourned
until 2021, the Chronicle reported.
It likely went down like this.
“Excuse me, Mr. Hernandez/Fernandez/Gonzalez/Sanchez, are you a United States Citizen?”
“Oh, I see, you are asking me that because my name ends in a Z, aren’t you? That’s RAAAAAAACIST! I am outraged, OUTRAGED I tell you!”
“Within days, the secretary of state’s office backtracked on the announcement after discovering that its original list was not properly vetted and included thousands of citizens.”
Oops. He screwed up. Great idea but incompetent implementation.
That is what I am wondering.
There must be more to it.
Maybe.
I get you point and agree with you, but, even I, the stereotypical white guy, would have trouble giving absolute proof of citizenship on short notice. Me thinks "red lining" by name or residence may have been involved.
What is red lining?
And I figured it would be as easy as giving license number.
I guess not :)
“Redlining” is when the address of a person (or on occasion a business) is used for such things as setting mortgage rates, insurance rates or accepting or declining loans. It’s based on the idea that some banks and insurance companies would draw a red line around certain areas and say ‘we won’t write business to any address in this area’. In underwriting terms, it’s very different from not writing a particular property based on unique circumstances, it’s not writing a property because of simply where it is.
Re: Some folks here are wondering how questioning citizenship can be botched?
I read this news story last night from a different source - Associated Press, I think.
My instant reaction - the Conservative “boss” trusted his Hard Left, Deep State, career government staff to do the research and write the final report.
Reminds me of Scott Pruitt, Trump’s former EPA Director.
As a state attorney general, Pruitt spent a decade attacking the EPA.
When Pruitt got to Washington D.C., he apparently had no clue that the Deep State EPA employees and the MSM would work tirelessly to destroy him.
The Deep State crushed Pruitt, and it looks like they crushed David Whitley in Texas, too.
What a shame.
REDLINING!!
That was in a real estate course I took some years back. I think lol
though I would have NEVER recalled it if you didn’t tell me :)
Thanks.
My memory sucks.
No, you would not, unless you live in one of the very few states that has still not complied with “REAL ID.”
In almost all states, you cannot fly or enter a government building or military base without a REAL ID drivers license or a REAL ID state identity card.
As to voting, if there is a question about your ID in any state, federal law allows you to vote on a “provisional” ballot, which is subject to verification if it is a very close election.
Re: Me thinks “red lining” by name or residence may have been involved.
Did you even read the article?
“In January, just a month after he was chosen, Whitley issued an advisory claiming that approximately 95,000 people who identified themselves as noncitizens when applying for a driver’s license at the Department of Public Safety also appeared on the state’s voter rolls. About 58,000 of them had voted in one or more elections since 1996. Whitley’s office sent letters to county election administrators urging them to investigate the names on the list for possible voter fraud.”
It was a completely reasonable request.
Terrified Texas Conservatives instantly backed down when the Democrats and the MSM turned it into a racial issue.
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