{"id":35160,"date":"2019-01-30T22:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T22:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35160"},"modified":"2019-01-30T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T22:38:40","slug":"voter-crisis-fizzles-out-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35160","title":{"rendered":"Voter ‘crisis’ fizzles out quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas election officials sent out an alarming message that 95,000 voters’ names were flagged because they supposedly weren’t U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

Oh, but then came the big “oops!”<\/p>\n

Those officials notified authorities in five large counties that many of those flagged for supposed voting ineligibility were actually citizens after all.<\/p>\n

The secretary of state’s office notified officials in Harris, Travis, Fort Bend, Collin and Williamson counties that the individuals thought to be worth checking shouldn’t be on the list.<\/p>\n

The way I view it, we have seen what happens when we presume<\/em> to have a problem where none may exist.<\/p>\n

Where is the crisis?<\/a><\/p>\n

In Harris County, more than 29,000 residents’ names were flagged but then a “substantial number of them” were determined to be citizens. “We’re going to proceed very carefully,” said Douglas Ray, a special assistant Harris County attorney.<\/p>\n

What we might have here is a rush to judgment in this era of voter-fraud alarm bells. Donald Trump has made it one of his several key wedge issues as he seeks to cement his “base” support. Now we hear from Texas officials that they are on the hunt for supposedly ineligible voters, only to learn that they are, um — wrong!<\/p>\n

Be careful when attaching “flags” to voters’ names.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas election officials sent out an alarming message that 95,000 voters’ names were flagged because they supposedly weren’t U.S. citizens. Oh, but then came the big “oops!” Those officials notified authorities in five large counties that many of those flagged for supposed voting ineligibility were actually citizens after all. The secretary of state’s office notified … Continue reading Voter ‘crisis’ fizzles out quietly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4699,5131,8341],"class_list":["post-35160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-texas-secretary-of-state","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-registration-rolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35162,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160\/revisions\/35162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}