{"id":1481,"date":"2022-02-03T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2022-09-08T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:30:07","slug":"civil-rights-groups-sue-to-force-texas-to-release-voter-purge-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/civil-rights-groups-sue-to-force-texas-to-release-voter-purge-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights groups sue to force Texas to release voter purge records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/author\/taylor-goldenstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Goldenstein<\/a>,&nbsp;Austin Bureau Houston Chronicle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TX_VPP_HoustonChron_ratio3x2_2200-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><code>Keith Downey of Kashmere Gardens holds up a fist in solidarity during a rally sponsored by Beto O'Rourke's Powered By People at Finnigan Park in Houston's Fifth Ward on Sunday, June 13, 2021. The tour was hitting multiple counties in Texas to drum up support for voting rights.<\/code><br><br>photo credit: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle \/ Staff photographer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/Civil-rights-groups-sue-to-force-Texas-to-release-16826403.php\">Feb. 2, 2022<\/a> <\/strong>Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 9:03&nbsp;p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A coalition of civil rights groups is suing the Secretary of State\u2019s Office for withholding documents concerning a voter purge program targeting immigrants that was mandated by the new Republican-backed election law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law, passed after a heated partisan battle last summer, requires that the office conduct regular sweeps of the voter rolls to verify citizenship status by cross-checking data provided by the Texas Department of Public of Safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without the data requested, the groups say they can\u2019t confirm that the state is complying with a 2019 settlement agreement that came as a result of a botched voter purge effort that year. Early reports from county officials that the lists have included people who registered at their naturalization ceremonies have further raised attorneys\u2019 suspicions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearst Newspapers has requested similar information regarding the people who are at risk of having their voter registrations revoked and has also been told the records are exempt from public records laws. The secretary of state has asked the Attorney General\u2019s Office to rule on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many voters has the secretary of state flagged in the state\u2019s largest counties?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state has questioned the citizenship status of the following amounts of voters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>3,063<\/strong> Harris County<\/li><li><strong>1,385<\/strong> Dallas County<\/li><li><strong>708<\/strong> Tarrant County<\/li><li><strong>327<\/strong> Collin County<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Texas Secretary of State<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary of State\u2019s Office declined to comment on the suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, 11,737 registered voters had been flagged as potential noncitizens, including about 2,900 Harris County residents. As of Dec. 31, 2,552 voter registration records had been canceled through the process, though the process is now on hold because of a federal law pausing any removals within 90 days of an election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the removed voters never responded to a notice giving them 30 days to verify their citizenship, and 382 were confirmed to be noncitizens and removed from the rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris County has so far been able to confirm the citizenship status of two voters. Most of the rest were sent notices in November, and of those, 263 have responded with proof of citizenship and will not be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/Here-comes-another-Texas-voter-purge-but-this-16464794.php?fbclid=IwAR1cPlaZ1TKIJfIJejQ8eBjJOq0Eu3k118qYCGadZUcQRUnSkU4sPBZnRE4\">Here comes another Texas voter purge, but this time with a wrinkle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin, alleges that the office is violating the National Voter Registration Act, a 1993 law that requires public disclosure of records pertaining to the maintenance of voter rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The civil rights groups \u2014 including the ACLU, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and D\u0112MOS \u2014 had requested records showing every individual identified under the program as a potential noncitizen as well as the information the secretary of state used to determine a voter\u2019s suspected citizenship status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTexas can\u2019t shirk its obligations under federal law to release information about its new voter purge program,\u201d said Ashley Harris, attorney at the ACLU of Texas, one of the plaintiff organizations. \u201cThe public deserves to know why Texas continues to falsely flag U.S. citizens for removal from the voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Removals are now on hold until at least after the March 1 primary election, if not the May 24 runoff, because of the freeze mandated by federal law within 90 days of an election. Anyone who received a notice within that time period will have that extra time to send their proof of citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018They felt insulted\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State law allows voters whose registration was canceled under this process because they missed the deadline to later send proof of U.S. citizenship so they can be reinstated, including at the polling place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remi Garza, the president of the Texas Association of Election Administrators, said county officials often don\u2019t have the data necessary to verify voters\u2019 citizenship status on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not generally set up as an investigative office,\u201d Garza, who serves as election administrator for Cameron County. Aside from asking the voter for documentation, \u201cwe don\u2019t have a whole lot of authority to request information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some counties, like Bexar and Travis, happen to keep data on voters who register at naturalization ceremonies, but it\u2019s not required by law. At the end of last year, the counties respectively found 15 and 17 percent of the flagged possible noncitizens filled out their registration applications at a ceremony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/12\/17\/texas-voter-roll-review\/\">the Texas Tribune reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travis County has not sent any letters to voters while it works to verify citizenship. For example, about 175 of the remaining 295 voters whose citizenship the county has not yet confirmed have Social Security numbers on file, which suggests they are citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple county officials said they had received calls from concerned and upset voters, many of whom had voted for years without issue, who didn\u2019t understand why they were being asked to prove themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey felt insulted,\u201d Garza said. \u201cThey were very emotional about having to provide this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sloppy data in \u201919 purge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the state questioned the citizenship status of almost 100,000 voters. Later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/local\/article\/The-official-leading-Texas-effort-to-scrub-13632333.php\">state officials admitted in court<\/a> that they did not try to weed out the immigrants who had been naturalized before sending lists of potential illegal voters to county elections officials. In fiscal year 2019, more than 97,000 individuals became naturalized U.S. citizens in Texas, according to the suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several Latino civil rights groups sued, alleging it was discriminatory, and the state entered into a settlement agreement that put an end to that program and limited future reviews to only those who signed up to vote before they presented documents to DPS indicating that they were not citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debacle led then-Secretary of State David Whitley to apologize to state lawmakers, saying the lists should have been reviewed more carefully, and the Texas Senate ultimately forced him out of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MORE ON THAT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/Texas-official-apologizes-for-inaccuracy-of-voter-13616764.php\">Texas official apologizes for inaccuracy of voter purge list<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican lawmakers who supported the bill said the state has learned valuable lessons from that last attempt and insist the latest effort is better thought-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiff attorneys aren\u2019t taking their word for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary of State\u2019s voter purge program once again surgically targets naturalized U.S. citizens for investigation and removal from the voter rolls,\u201d said Nina Perales, MALDEF vice president of litigation. \u201cNaturalized U.S. citizens have the same right to vote as all other citizens, and this new lawsuit seeks to ensure that Texas treats its voters fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>taylor.goldenstein@chron.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/taygoldenstein\">twitter.com\/taygoldenstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Voter_purge\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Taylor Goldenstein,&nbsp;Austin Bureau Houston Chronicle Feb. 2, 2022 Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 9:03&nbsp;p.m. A coalition of civil rights groups is suing the Secretary of State\u2019s Office for withholding documents concerning a voter purge program targeting immigrants that was mandated by the new Republican-backed election law. 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