Voter Fraud in Texas is alive and well. Here are some numbers as published by the Texas Conservative Coalition http://www.txccri.org .

In 2007, a former Port Lavaca city councilwoman was convicted for assisting non-citizens in registering to vote.

Since 1992, Harris County has cancelled 3,742 registered voters because they were not citizens; 683 of those non-citizenship cancellations have occurred in the past seven years.

Between 2003 and 2005, 303 people were removed from the voter rolls in Bexar County because they were not citizens. Forty-one of these non-citizens voted in local, state, and federal elections.

From September 1999 to March 21, 2007, Dallas County cancelled the voter registration of 1,889 individuals because of non-citizenship. Before being deleted from the voter rolls, 356 of those individuals had voted in Dallas County.

In El Paso County, 213 non-citizens were removed from the voter rolls between January and October 2006.

In Tarrant County, 584 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls since 1999.

At least 6,731 non-citizens have registered to vote in Texas, and at least 391 non-citizens have illegally voted.

In 2007, the State Auditor identified 49,049 registered voters who may be ineligible to vote, including 23,114 possible felons and 23,576 who may be deceased.

In Texas, the legal system selects its jury members from the Texas Department of Public Safety (Drivers License) and the voter rolls. When a jury notice is sent to people who have registered to vote or who have driver’s license and those people go before the judge to be excused because they are not citizens then they are identified as being illegal aliens.

Some races in local communities are won or lost by the narrowest of margins. As you can see, Voter Fraud is indeed a real issue in Texas and other states.

David D. Andrews Sr.

Merkel, Texas