Name: Texas Secretary Of State Refuses To Admit Mistakes In Probe Of Suspected Noncitizens
Brand: huffingtonpost.com
SKU: huffingtonpost-com-7
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

Texas Secretary Of State Refuses To Admit Mistakes In Probe Of Suspected Noncitizens

preview

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementSophia Lin Lakin, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project who is representing plaintiffs suing Whitley over the review, said Whitley’s quick action on the list of suspected noncitizens was reckless.“Secretary Whitley’s irresponsible decision to forward his purge list to law enforcement authorities knowing that it very likely contained the names of naturalized citizens properly on the rolls is just another indication of the apparent disregard for the immigrant community in Texas that prompted him to initiate a purge program that by its nature threatens the voting rights of naturalized citizens,” she said in an email. Advertisement“Anecdotally, I have heard voter suppression talked about.”- Texas Secretary of State David Whitley (R)Advertisement“Secretary Whitley’s testimony today only deepened our concerns regarding the flawed and inaccurate voter purge list that his office sent to counties two weeks ago,” Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director at the Texas Civil Rights Project ― which is also suing Whitley ― said Thursday. “Instead of taking full responsibility for this debacle, he passed the buck to the previous Secretary and the Department of Public Safety.”“Most alarming for voters,” Stevens said, “the Secretary admitted that he sent this list of individuals to county officials and the Attorney General before knowing all of the facts to determine voter eligibility.”State Sen. John Whitmire (D) appeared briefly at Thursday’s hearing to register his opposition to Whitley’s voter probe, noting that the list targeted an intern in his office. “It’s shocking,” Whitmire said.The experience of Whitmire’s intern, Belén Iñiguez, underscores some of the problems critics pointed out at the hearing. She moved to Austin from the town of Tyler to work at this year’s legislative session.AdvertisementHaving naturalized last year, Iñiguez feared she might be on the secretary of state’s list of suspected noncitizen voters. A call to Smith County election officials confirmed she was.But the letter giving her 30 days to prove her citizenship or have her voter registration revoked went out Jan. 31 to her old address in Tyler, where she never would have received it.“There was no freaking way for me to find out that I was on that list other than calling,” Iñiguez told HuffPost.Roque Planas reported from Austin. Sam Levine reported from New York.To stream NBCU shows featured in this piece sign up toSuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementSophia Lin Lakin, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project who is representing plaintiffs suing Whitley over the review, said Whitley’s quick action on the list of suspected noncitizens was reckless.“Secretary Whitley’s irresponsible decision to forward his purge list to law enforcement authorities knowing that it very likely contained the names of naturalized citizens properly on the rolls is just another indication of the apparent disregard...

public

Roque Planas

Voting rights reporter @guardianus. Former reporter @huffpost. Listen to our podcast about the fight to vote http://apple.co/2BmP5cm sam.levine@theguardian.com

Sam Levine

huffingtonpost.com

Credible

Speculation

Anecdotal Evidence

Generalization

Stacking the Deck

Appeal to Authority

Straw Man

Slippery Slope

Emotional Appeal

Red Herring

False Dilemma

Illogical

Moral Equivalency

Ad Hominem

Correlation w/o Causation

Semantics

Begging the Question

Faulty Analogy

Non Sequitur

Bandwagon

Dogmatism

Failing Occam's Razor

Biased

Pure Opinion

Hit Piece

Racial Bias

National Bias

Religious Bias

Financial Incentive

Political Agenda

Gender Bias

Misused Image/Video

Study Misinterpreted

Mistake

Misused Term

Science Misrepresented

Factual Error

Satire

Surface Level

Lack of Reliable Sources

Sensational

Not Credible

Investigative

Balanced

Well Sourced

Great Context

sports

entertainment

U.S.

international

business

technology

science

culture

politics

media

health

Texas Secretary Of State Refuses To Admit Mistakes In Probe Of Suspected Noncitizens

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS