Texas attorney general seeks federal help identifying potential non-citizen voters – The Daily Texan

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined 16 state attorneys general on Monday in signing a letter calling on the federal government to provide the citizenship status of registered voters.

Paxton joined the letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security. Paxton said in a news release that his office is asking Mayorkas to verify the citizenship information of 450,000 registered voters in Texas who do not have a driver’s license or ID card.

Paxton said the Biden-Harris administration has failed to provide access to states Databases necessary to ensure the “accuracy” of electoral rolls.

Paxton sent the letter a week before early voting began in Texas. The joint letter said the ministry was committed to supporting and protecting electoral privilege. The attorneys general said the department “delayed and inadequately responded to requests from multiple attorneys general.”

The letter follows Paxton asking Jane Nelson, the Texas secretary of state, to apply to the federal government for voter citizenship status on September 18.

“My office has identified information maintained by the Secretary of State that will facilitate our efforts to prevent non-U.S. citizens from casting illegal votes in elections in Texas and to investigate possible voter fraud,” Paxton said in a letter to Nelson dated March 2. October.

Paxton said in a news release that Nelson’s office did not send the list of “potential non-citizen voters” to the federal government. He asked Nelson to provide the attorney general’s office with a list of registered voters who do not have a Texas driver’s license or identification card.

“Texans cannot afford to waste another second waiting to have their vote protected from illegal ballots,” Paxton said in a news release.