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Voting rights reporter @guardianus. Formerly @huffpost. sam.levine@theguardian.com. I write a weekly voting rights newsletter: https://bit.ly/3lY5SeK 

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    Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

    New emails show Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pushed officials to look for non-citizens on state voter rolls months ahead of controversial botched "purge" efforthttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-noncitizen-voters-emails_n_5cf6ebd4e4b0dc70f44e6893?dh2 …

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      2. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        These emails are the first behind-the-scenes look at how Texas officials sought to identify non-citizens on the rolls. Texas AG's office has twice rebuffed request for docs from @OversightDems

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      3. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        In May of 2018, Texas Department of Public Safety provided the Texas Secretary of State's office with a list of everyone 18+ who said they were a non-citizen when they got a driver's license. In August, the governor made an urgent request they do so again.pic.twitter.com/DoWqud8xjX

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      4. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        There was a complication. The SoS office wanted more information than they got in May. Specifically, they wanted immigration identifiers -- such as an alien number -- they could run through a DHS database to identify non-citizens.pic.twitter.com/vrR3mMTIAr

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      5. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        They wanted that list because it could people who had gotten a driver's license as non-citizens but since become naturalized. DPS couldn't produce the information right away.pic.twitter.com/bAZC8Uw8df

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      6. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        It was made clear that this was an urgent request from the Governor's office. Other DPS officials just said to provide the same version of what they provided in May.pic.twitter.com/ZzTTk07MZJ

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      7. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        That was August. By January, the SoS' office abandoned its efforts to use the DHS database. It's not clear why. Instead it just went with comparing people who got driver's licenses as non-citizens to the voter rolls.

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      8. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        They ran into the exact problem the DPS employee hinted at back in August. They had identified people who got driver's licenses as non-citizens but had since become naturalized citizens.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-voter-fraud-allegations_n_5c4f8708e4b00906b26c62ac …

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      9. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        An Abbott spokesman denied the governor had any role at all in the January effort. “This is patently false. Neither the Governor, nor the Governor’s office had spoken with dps until after the issue surfaced. No one speaks for the Governor’s office, but the Governor’s office.”

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      10. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 4 Jun 2019

        Texas wound up reaching a settlement with civil rights groups who sued them over the January effort. They agreed not to cancel anyone's voter registration based on the data.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-non-citizens-voter-rolls_n_5cc36062e4b08e4e3481ff72 …

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      11. Sam Levine‏Verified account @srl 5 Jun 2019

        Here are the full emails @CampaignLegal released yesterday showing internal discussion at Texas DPS and SoS offices on how to identify non-citizens registered to vote. https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/Texas%20LULAC%20v.%20Whitley%20-%20DPS%20Public%20Document%20Production.pdf …

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