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Pedro Camacho

Amid Noncitizen Voting Claims, Texas AG Seeks Federal Help to Confirm Citizenship for 450,000 Texans

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Credit: Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A few days ago, a report by Reuters showed that eight U.S. states will be voting this upcoming election to ban noncitizen voting. The only issue? It's already illegal and is legal for municipal races in just 17 localities across the country.

Doubts about the electoral process have largely been fueled by Donald Trump's false claims that his 2020 loss to Joe Biden was due to widespread voter fraud and conservatives have run wild with the theory this election cycle, increasingly monitoring voter registration efforts, particularly those led by Latino advocacy groups.

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