Texas Settles Non-Citizen Voter Purge Fight With Latinos
- Judge had faulted election officials for ‘threatening’ letters
- State will scrap list of 98,000 suspected non-citizen voters
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Texas has agreed to scrap a list of 98,000 suspected non-citizen voters, thousands of whom became naturalized U.S. citizens before they voted, to settle a court challenge brought by Latino groups who said a threatened purge unfairly disenfranchised law-abiding immigrants.
The state will discard the list of individuals who identified as non-citizen legal immigrants when they applied for drivers’ licenses during the past 20 years and then later registered to vote, according to statements issued by several groups who challenged the measure.