Red State Ag Investigating More Than 30 Potential Noncitizens Who Voted In 2024 Election

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into 33 imaginable noncitizens allegedly illegally voting successful nan 2024 wide election.

Paxton, a Republican who is moving a Senate superior situation against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced nan investigation connected Tuesday.

In a property statement, Paxton’s agency said it was made alert of nan imaginable forbidden votes by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson. The connection said Nelson was only capable to entree nan accusation because of an executive bid signed by President Donald Trump this March. 

Trump’s executive order, titled "Preserving and Protecting nan Integrity of American Elections," directed nan Departments of State and Homeland Security to springiness each states "access to due systems for verifying nan citizenship aliases migration position of individuals registering to ballot aliases who are already registered."

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Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton (left) has launched an investigation into 33 imaginable noncitizens allegedly voting successful nan 2024 wide election. (Justin Lane/Reuters and AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

The bid besides directed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to supply U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi pinch "complete accusation connected each overseas nationals who person indicated connected immoderate migration shape that they person registered aliases voted successful a Federal, State, aliases section election, and shall besides return each due action to taxable to applicable State aliases section predetermination officials specified information."

Part of this bid progressive nan U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s SAVE database being opened up to nan states astatine nary cost, done which Nelson was capable to entree nan accusation astir nan alleged forbidden voting, according to Paxton’s statement. 

Trump said successful nan bid that "free, fair, and honorable elections unmarred by fraud, errors, aliases suspicion are basal to maintaining our law Republic" and "the correct of American citizens to person their votes decently counted and tabulated, without forbidden dilution, is captious to determining nan rightful victor of an election."

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Voting booths are seen astatine Glass Elementary School's polling position successful Eagle Pass, Texas, connected Nov. 8, 2022. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

In August 2024, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that nan authorities had removed 1.1 cardinal group from its elector rolls, including individuals who had moved out-of-state, were deceased aliases who were non-citizens.

A connection by nan governor’s agency said that complete 6,500 of nan individuals removed from nan state’s elector rolls were imaginable noncitizens. The connection said that astir 1,930 of nan removed noncitizens had a elector history. 

Later reporting by nan Texas Tribune alleged that nan governor’s agency had inflated nan numbers of noncitizen voters. The governor’s office, however, has said that nan removal process "has been, and will proceed to be, ongoing."

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks extracurricular nan U.S. Supreme Court connected Nov.1, 2021 successful Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

In his Tuesday connection announcing nan investigation into nan 33 imaginable noncitizens voting, Paxton said that "these imaginable instances of unlawful voting will beryllium thoroughly investigated, and I will proceed to guidelines pinch President Trump successful fighting to guarantee that our state’s elections are safe and secure." 

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"In bid to beryllium capable to spot nan integrity of our elections, nan results must beryllium wished by our ain citizens—not overseas nationals breaking nan rule to illegally vote," said Paxton, adding that "noncitizens must not beryllium allowed to power American elections, and I will usage nan afloat weight of my agency to analyse each elector fraud."