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Texas sues Biden administration for not providing data on noncitizens. (www.texastribune.org)

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[-] orclev@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago

They must be panicking because they've found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won't buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as "these are the ones we found, there's probably tens of thousands we haven't!", but I bet they've only been able to find less than a hundred so now they're looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

I can’t imagine why an illegal immigrant would want to vote. The whole thing is ludicrous.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I know many citizens who think voting is ludicrous. The system is broken and it's definitely not the fault of illegal immigrants.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago

I'll bet they can't find one illegally cast vote that was counted. People talk like it's really uncommon. No, it's so uncommon it never happens. I read some research that was done over a ten year period and they found less that 40 cases of vote fraud, almost none of which were for national office, and none of which had ever affected an outcome.

Vote fraud in the US it's effectively zero.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

with all this projection, some one should check Ted Cruz's immigration status.

Just saying. maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

Nope, fuck that, shoot him into the sun, we've got enough rightwing nutjobs in Canada.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Strand him in an airport. Never to be released into either country. Always waiting for a flight to Cancun that keeps getting delayed forever.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I like this.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You sure? We could make it an "art" exhibit if we sent him there directly from Texas. We could even make it a symbol of peace like the statue of Liberty. Call it "the big splat" or something.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

The Trebuchet of Yeet.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Alright, if you can get a trebuchet built strong enough to fire him at least to the border from Texas, you may send him back....but only by trebuchet

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Aww, don't you think PP needs a friend?

Seriously, we don't want him back. Totally agree, "One of these days Teddy, one of these days.To the sun."

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I think we should pull a Simpsons and load both of em and all their little intolerant friends on a rocket and straight into the sun with em!

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

They won't be panicking. They made up the lie that non citizens are voting, they know it's not true.

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

They fail to realize the calls are coming from inside their house

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I, for one, welcome the Republican scrutiny on voter fraud so that we can finally find and address the cases of Republican voter fraud.

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

That would be funny to watch them realise in real time that they are the baddies they fear. Sadly I doubt it would last more than .0000000000001 of a second, team politics

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They're just in the phase of making bullshit requests and lawsuits without evidence so they can rile up the base about Biden being a party to voter fraud.

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

(my bold)

The lawsuit escalates Paxton’s hunt for noncitizen voters just two weeks before the election and a day after early voting began in Texas. He has pressed Texas Secretary of State Janet Nelson to request that the federal government hand over data the state could use to cross-check its voter rolls.

His timing is impeccable.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Paxton is a criminal and belongs in jail.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Name a single Texas state government official that isnt/doesn't.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Probably some clerk in El Paso who really fucken hates their job.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

His timing is impeccable.

You misspelled impeachable.

[-] don@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago

Texas needs to be sued for being Texas.

[-] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 week ago

Can we title these as Paxton instead of Texas? Texas is a big place and he's hated near universally.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

And yet they were apathetic enough to let him get reelected

[-] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

I think apathh is a huge part of how so many of our politicians get elected. Everyone knows who the top 2 candidates are for president but don't have a clue when it comes to the local politicians who are directly impacting where they live. So much easier to vote down party lines.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The Bibi of the South.

[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Fuck Texas.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Surprising restraint from Paxton. I half expected him to just pick everyone with a "Mexican sounding" name then assume they're illegal.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

He'll still do that, but now he wants to courts to publicly say that it's ok for him to do it.

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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