Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked

Article author: 
Stephen Dinan
Article publisher: 
The Washington Times
Article date: 
19 October 2018
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants [and presumably illegal aliens] with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.
 
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren’t citizens, received the mailing....
 
The Texas secretary of state’s office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.