{"id":34318,"date":"2018-09-19T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34318"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:01","slug":"texas-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34318","title":{"rendered":"Texas Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about the ongoing battle to institute a voter identification law in Texas.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A United States District Court judge dismissed the lawsuit which challenged the Texas voter ID law, announced Attorney General Ken Paxton late Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a02017 Texas voter ID law (SB 5)<\/a>\u00a0cleared its final hurdle when the Fifth Circuit honored a request made last month by the opponents of the state\u2019s voter ID law to\u00a0dismiss any remaining claims since the matter was settled and there was nothing left to pursue in this case. This marked the end of seven years of litigation over the state\u2019s attempts to enact a voter ID law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the successful fight my office waged to defend Texas\u2019 voter ID law,\u201d said<\/a> Paxton in a prepared statement. \u201cWith this major legal victory, voter ID requirements remain in place going forward to prevent fraud and ensure that election results accurately reflect the will of Texas voters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is from a rightwinggranny article<\/a> in 2010. It is the story of True the Vote and their investigation into voter fraud in Houston:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dThe first thing we started to do was look at houses<\/a> with more than six voters in them\u201d Engelbrecht (Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote) said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. \u201cMost voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dBut we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n\u201cVacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house<\/a> had more than 40 voters registered at its address,\u201d Engelbrecht said. \u201cWe then decided to look at who was registering the voters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTheir work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state\u2019s office and the Harris County district attorney.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who formerly worked for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is obvious from the above numbers that Texas has had a voter fraud problem. I suspect many other states have had similar problems. It will be interesting to see how election results change as voter fraud is cleaned up. That may be the reason some organizations are fighting so hard against voter identification laws.<\/p>\n

The article at Breitbart concludes:<\/p>\n

The president of the pro-voter ID Public Interest Legal Foundation, J. Christian Adams, praised<\/a> the State\u2019s work in defending the law over the years and suggests it can help prevent attacks from \u201cexternal influences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Office of the Texas Attorney General ably handled this case to protect against classic fraud, it also helped harden defenses against external influences and threats to our elections,\u201d Adams said in a release. He challenged \u201cwell-funded\u201d opponents of the law to instead \u201cexpend [their] resources to actually help people cast ballots.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breitbart Texas has reported on the growing number of voter fraud claims statewide which Paxton\u2019s office has prosecuted, including in-person, mail-in ballot, and noncitizen voting<\/a>\u00a0cases. Also, the AG increasingly has assisted<\/a> district attorneys in Texas counties and\/or opened<\/a>\u00a0voter fraud investigations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s work together to make our elections more honest.<\/p>\n

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