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“At best, this proposal is ill-advised because it has the potential to confuse Harris County residents about whether they are eligible to vote. At worst, it has the potential to induce the commission of a crime by encouraging people who are ineligible to vote to provide false information on the form,” Paxton said. wrote in the letter to Harris County. “Either way, it is illegal, and if you go ahead with this proposal, I will use every legal means available to stop you.”

In particular, Paxton argued that the state had no right to distribute registration forms without being asked, citing a similar lawsuit he filed against Harris County in 2020 when it attempted to push through a similar proposal. Paxton had previously raved Steve Bannon said that if he had not blocked the state’s distribution of over two million ballots, Texas might have become a swing state and Donald Trump would have “lost the election.”

In reality, there is little to no evidence that noncitizen voting is a significant problem in the United States. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, noncitizens made up just 0.0001 percent of votes cast in 2016. Yet this is not an issue that Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson and, of course, Trump have baselessly promoted over and over again throughout the election cycle.