United States – The Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday, claiming that the federal government was not providing it the assistance it needed to determine the citizenship status of some of its registered voters, as reported by Reuters.
In its complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Abbott writes that the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security are ‘delinquent’ in assisting in ascertaining the citizenship status of 450,000 of the 17.9 million voters registered in the state.
Federal Inaction Prompts Legal Action
Technically, it remains prohibited for any aliens to vote in the federal elections in the United States, and a few scandals were unearthed by both state and private reviews. However, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his supporters have insisted that many noncitizens could cast their ballot in the November 5 election against Democrat Kamala Harris.
Trump has repeatedly made a number of false statements, including the fully debunked narrative that he only lost the 2020 presidential elections due to fraud.
The attorney general’s office said Paxton wrote a letter to the federal government earlier this month asking it to determine the citizenship of people potentially unlawfully registered to vote in Texas by Oct. 19. His office later stated that he went on to launch a legal case when his plea was not responded to.
Ongoing Investigation
His office said nearly 500,000 voters in the database might not be US citizens, but he admitted that most of the above voters were probably genuine American citizens and, therefore, legal voters, as reported by Reuters.
“While the majority of the voters on the list are likely citizens who are eligible to vote, Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any of the voters on the list are non-citizens who are ineligible to vote without additional information,” his office said.