The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked Yes, according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who arent citizens, received the mailing.
This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle, said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group thats made its mark policing states voter registration practices.
The Texas secretary of states office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.
If true there will be serious consequences, he said.
